On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 17:15 -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:00:52 -0500, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 10:17:07PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > >> Robert Noland wrote: > >> >On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 19:46 +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > >> >>Tried updating all my ports - all 439 of them - sing ``portmanager > >> -u''. > >> >>Numerous failures, conflicts etc. as usual. Got most of them sorted > >> but > >> >>``portmanager -s'' still reports a load as MISSING, but they aren't; > >> the > >> >>directories are in /var/db/pkg and the apps work. > >> > > >> >I suspect that one of your /var/db/pkg entries is corrupt, try doing a > >> >"pkg_info" and note any errors that get reported. Manually rebuild the > >> >port with the corrupted entry and then try portmanager again. > >> > > >> > >> Thanks for the response Robert, but unfortunately, pkg_info returns no > >> errors. > > > > > > Mark, > > > > I thought I was the only one with these symptoms. Very much > > like the ones you describe, and pkg_info is no help. Similarly > > with the other build/upgrade/fixit tools. After several weeks ' > > of this, I've come to the conclusion that the upgrade side of > > things is very busted. (****) > > Maybe you guys should stop use portmanager. I personal don't trust it.
I am the current maintainer of portmanager and I am not aware of any issues. The first post indicated he was also having issues with portmaster. What aspect is it that you do not trust? It does a complete dependency mapping to ensure that everything is in sync at any given point in time. robert. > Cheers, > Mezz > > > cheers! > > > > gary > > > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> Mark > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
