Various package/ports problems

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 06:31:18PM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
> Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 05:58:36PM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
> > Kris Kennaway  wrote: On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 01:59:14PM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
> > 
> >> Thanks, i CAN compile from the ports collection (i never wanted to use
> >>  packages). Its MANAGING this that i cant do. I can update my ports tree
> >> fine, and i can go into ports directory and do a make install, sure.
> >> 
> >> But i cant do portsversion to see what needs updating, and i cant do
> >> pkg_info to find out what versions i have. So doing something like
> 
> >Why not (in both cases)?As i posted in the original message - the main question i was
> asking - both of these are broken in some way. Reposting:
> 
> ---
> 
> 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).

pkgdb -f

> 
> 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.)

Deinstall the package that was built for a later version of FreeBSD.

Kris
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