Assertion failed & Abort trap from pkg subsystem

[Scot Hetzel]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 5:37 AM, Michael Ross <gmx at ross.cx> wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 11:05:30 +0100, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 08:25:36AM +0100, sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:
>>>
>>> > > Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
>>> > > Fetching bash-4.3.30_1.txz: 100%    1 MB   1.2M/s    00:01
>>> > > Fetching gettext-runtime-0.19.3.txz: 100%  144 KB 147.2k/s    00:01
>>> > > Checking integrity...Assertion failed: (pkgdb_ensure_loaded(j->db,
>>> > > p2, PKG_LOAD_FILES|PKG_LOAD_DIRS) == EPKG_OK), function
>>> > > pkg_conflicts_need_conflict, file pkg_jobs_conflicts.c, line 211.
>>> > > Child process pid=4851 terminated abnormally: Abort trap
>>> ...
>>> > According to the 20141130 entry in /usr/ports/UPDATING, the gettext
>>> > port was split into 2 ports.  One containing the libraries, and the
>>> > other the developer tools.
>>> >
>>> > See /usr/ports/UPDATING on how to fix this issue.
>>>
>>> Thanks, that got the issue fixed.
>>>
>>> For Christmas I wish for a more descriptive error message from pkg :-)
>>>
>> it has been fixed :) (better than a more descriptive error message no?)
>>
>> Best regards
>> Bapt
>
>
> But to know things like this,
> I have to have an updated ports tree on your system,
> because "pkg updating" doesn't have it's own copy of UPDATING somewhere.
> ( I thought it had until know )
>
> So before "pkg upgrade" I'd have to update my ports tree to check UPDATING?
>
You don't need to update your ports tree, instead use:

http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/UPDATING

to read the latest copy of UPDATING.


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