On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 07:46:05AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > > On May 28, 2008, at 6:10 AM, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > >> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:23:51PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: >>> Can you tell me why this portupgrade fails? >>> >>> creating seeking_example >>> Making all in vq >>> ---> Backing up the old version >>> tar: +COMMENT: Cannot stat: No such file or directory >>> tar: +DESC: Cannot stat: No such file or directory >>> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors. >> >> Because you lost a couple of files in /var/db/pkg? > > A poor question on my part. > > How can I make this portupgrade succeed?
timtowtdi: 1. pkg_delete -af 2. rm -rf /var/db/pkg 3. touch /var/db/pkg/*/+{COMMENT,DESC} 4. pkg_delete -x <failing package> 5. ln -sf /usr/bin/true /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade There is no "right way". Portupgrade is a great tool which just likes to really screw up once in a while. I guess it's a fair payment for all the headaches it solves. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"