On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Marc Espie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 07:05:56PM +0100, Louis V. Lambrecht wrote: >> Stuart Henderson wrote: >>> On 2008-11-05, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> I been updating packages from 4.3 to 4.4 but my box rebooted due to a >>>> power outage and now I'm getting the following error while updating >>>> packages: >>>> >>>> Warning: couldn't read packing-list from installed package jasper-1.900.1 >>>> File /var/db/pkg/jasper-1.900.1/+CONTENTS does not exist >>>> /usr/sbin/pkg_add: Can't locate jasper-1.900.1 >>>> >>>> (pkg_add -ui -F update -F updatedepends) >>>> >>>> I cd to /var/db/pkg/jasper-1.900.1/ and the directory is empty. >>>> >>>> Thanks for any help. >>>> >>>> > Oops, looks like I forgot to document some stuff. > > There is some experimental code in pkg_add to take care of that: > remove the /var/db/pkg/jasper-* directory, and try > adding jasper again, in interactive mode. > > With luck, it will tell you there are collisions with files not found > in any package, but which match exactly with jasper, and then it will attempt > to repair the situation: that is, it will extract again the package, and > scan all the forward dependencies and restore the missing links.
Thank you all for your help. I have checked every single package directory under /var/db/pkg/ to find the ones that are empty and deleted them; I took notes of the package directories that I deleted and installed those packages with pkg_add -iv <package_name> (seven in total) - at the time of the installation I was asked whether I want to resolve any conflict. After that, I just did the usual pkg_add -ui -F update -F updatedepends to update all the packages.
