On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 07:06:17AM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote: > On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 06:47:52AM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 06:40:27AM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote: > > > ... > > > Back on the original topic, I was able to get pkg-1.3.1 installed and > > > ... > > > > OK; I was able to simplify the process on my 2nd system: > > > > * Update /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf (to remove to eduplicate alias > > definition for "leaf"). > > > > * cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg && make reinstall > > ... > > WARNING: Whatever I've done seems to have left me with a > somewhat-broken version of pkg. "pkg info pkg-1.3.1" (for example) > spits out a list of installed packages, vs. providing details of > pkg-1.3.1. I'm not at all clear on why this is, but I wanted to > discourage folks from doing what I listed above without being aware that > it doesn't seem to actually work completely. > ...
The above appears to have been caused by some rather unfortunate entries in /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf. I find that moving that file aside allows "pkg info" to work normally. Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill da...@catwhisker.org Taliban: Evil cowards with guns afraid of truth from a 14-year old girl. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.
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