FreeBSD/EC2 -9.0-Current 2011-01-01 (ami-f4db2a9d)

[Joseph A. Nagy, Jr]

On 12/17/12 10:19, jflowers wrote:
<snip>
> 2. Unfortunately, after I had spent a couple of hours on installing ports, I
> installed pkgng.  It seemed to install OK but then when I ran pkg2ng it
> didn't work throwing the following error message twice.
>
> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Undefined symbol "Quiet" referenced from COPY
> relocation in /usr/sbin/pkg_info.
>
> and then ...
>
> Conversion has been successfully finished
> Your old packages database has been moved to: /var/db/pkg.bak
>
> There is no sign of a pkg.bak anywhere on the machine and, of course, pkg_*
> tools don't work. /var/db/pkg is still fully populated with what looks like
> the correct files. There is also no perl installed
<snip>

To address the pkgng...

when you ran pkg2ng all your tools moved to 'pkg add', 'pkg version', etc.

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Joseph A Nagy Jr
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