On Friday 25 February 2005 09:26 pm, Doug Lee wrote: > System: FreeBSD-STABLE (4.10). Ports updated recently, but I've had > trouble with the database and probably never straightened it out. > > Problem: "portinstall lang/perl5.8" and other similar attempts to > install ports abort quietly. With -v, I just see session started, > nothing installed or upgraded, session ended. I can install any port > via make install though (perl is going in now thus). I have run > pkgdb -fu, then pkgdb -F, then just in case, pkgdb -fu again; no > change. I've run make index several times, but not today (this is a > P166, so make index takes a while). > > I think my ports database must be irreparably hosed, but I welcome > suggestions on how to salvage things. :-) > > Please Cc me.
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