On 20 Jan 2014 at 9:51, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > On 20 January 2014 00:54, Bob Nestor <rnes...@tx.rr.com> wrote: > > One thing I did see is if the upgrade involves a lot of packages pkgin > > will calculate the amount of space it needs in /var and reject the > > operation if there isn't enough space > > I don't recall receiving errors regarding space. All the packages were > downloaded at once. Only half way through installation it complained > that some packages could not be installed. Unfortunately I cannot find > a log of these errors. > > It this can help, I recall viewing these messages: > "File xxxx can be safely deleted if no other applications are using it". > > I am just recalling from memory. > > Isn't pkgin developed by the core developers at Netbsd. If there are > any risks of running a full upgrade maybe that option should be > removed. I can't see what I've done wrong before launching the > command. > > Is there any way to reset the /usr/pkg and start again? At this point > I am not even sure the output of pkg_info can be trusted. >
Does output from "pkg_info -a" look ok? It's possibly worth doing "pkg_admin check" and if that throws up errors "pkg_admin reuild-tree" or even "pkg_admin rebuild" I don't use pkgin, I edit a pkgchk.conf then use pkg_chk to build/install binary packages (takes 1-3 weeks). The binaries in /usr/pkg_tarup are then copied to target pcs and installed using "pkg_chk -buak" (takes a few hours). David > > > -- > Ottavio
