If I have portmanager, do I need portupgrade?

Michael C. Shultz ringworm01 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 14 14:38:18 PST 2005


On Monday 14 March 2005 02:28 pm, Lee Harr wrote:
> >I think there is no big difference between just running portupgrade
> > vs portmanager.  I would say portmanager is better and faster
> > because you don't need to baby sit, it is really automagical, and
> > there is no messing with an index.
>
> I keep hearing great things about portmanager, but I have
> not been able to run it... when I try, I get:
>
>
> # portmanager -s
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>--- PMGRrStatus 0.2.9_3 info: Creating inital data bases
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>--- PMGRrVerifyContentsFile 0.2.9_3 error: could not open
> /var/db/pkg/mailman-2.1.5_2/+CONTENTS
> system message: No such file or directory
> Assertion failed: (0), function PMGRrVerifyContentsFile, file
> PMGRrVerifyContentsFile.c,line 75.
> Abort (core dumped)
>
>
> What am I doing wrong?

Does /var/db/pkg/mailman-2.1.5_2 exist on your system? If so
does  /var/db/pkg/mailman-2.1.5_2/+CONTENTS exist?

-Mike



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