Various package/ports problems

[Garrett Cooper]

On Aug 28, 2006, at 1:21 PM, Gerard Seibert wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I inherited a FreeBSD 4.8 box that had a lot of out of date ports  
>> on it. in
>> trying to fix some of this, i seem to have screwed up the package or
>> ports system in a way i cant manage to fix.
>>
>> For example if i try to run "portversion" i get:
>>
>>  undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass
>>  /usr/local/sbin/portversion:239: [BUG] Bus Error
>>
>> from Ruby (ruby 1.8.5 is up to date on the system).
>>
>> If i try to run "pkg_info" I quickly get:
>>
>>  pkg_info: read_plist: bad command '@conflicts apache+ipv6-1.*'
>>
>> (i googled for similar problems and there were a few other reports
>> of this, with other packages, but no suggestion of how to fix them.)
>>
>> If i try to rebuild my ports index, I get
>>
>>  gnopernicus-0.12.0: "/usr/ports/accessibility/gnome-speech" non- 
>> existent --
>>  dependency list incomplete"
>>
>> and nothing will go further.
>>
>> How can i get all of this sorted? i was really hoping to be able  
>> to update
>> most of this sytem but now i cant even get started to find out  
>> what needs it :-(
>>
>> Jen
>
> That is really quite an old version of FSBD. If possible, I think  
> you would be well served by updating to the latest version - 6.1 -  
> if possible.
>
> I may be wrong, but I do not believe that there is a lot of support  
> for that version anymore.
>
> -- 
> Gerard Seibert
> gerard at seibercom.net
>
> Has anyone ever tasted an "end"?  Are they really bitter?

Version 4.x is no longer supported by FreeBSD at all. I suggest  
either reinstalling FreeBSD 5.4 or just install 6.1.
-Garrett