On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Baptiste Daroussin <b...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 01:31:37PM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Baptiste Daroussin <b...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> > Well normally just once you have build your port (before installing) just >> > make >> > deinstall, ./work/pkg-beta11/pkg-static/pkg-static info, it should upgrade >> > your >> > database. >> > >> > Then make install should finish the work. >> >> And, if it doesn't? >> >> Was running beta8. Tried to upgrade to beta11. Got the >> "outdated/opened readonly" error. Doing the deinstall/pkg-static >> command above gave the same error the first time it was run. The >> second time it returned successfully but there was 0 output. >> >> Now, running the "pkg-static info" command from the workdir gives the >> exact same "outdated/readonly" error. >> >> Is there anyway to recover the database? Especially considering that >> /var/db/pkg/ is blank except for the local.sqlite file. >> > yes there is, are you running what version/arch FreeBSD are you using? > depending > on that I can give you the workaround.
Whew. Good to hear. :) uname -a: FreeBSD rogue.ashesofthe.net 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #1 r226546: Sun Jan 22 02:10:54 PST 2012 r...@rogue.ashesofthe.net:/usr/obj/usr/src-8/sys/ROGUE i386 > I'm still trying to figure out what is preventing beta11 from being about to > upgrade from beta8, and fix it, so can you send me you local.sqlite ? As it's a 50 MB file, you can download it from here: http://www.sd73.bc.ca/downloads/local.sqlite -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"