Really big port problem :-)

[Adam K Kirchhoff]

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Eirik Nygaard wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 08:59:29PM +0100, Eirik Nygaard wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 02:12:23PM -0500, Skip Ford wrote:
> > > Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> > > > Skip Ford <skip.ford at xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >> Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> > > >>> I'm trying to get a full list of all the ports I have installed with
> > > >>> pkg_info, but it dies somewhere in the l's :-)
> > > >>>
> > > >>> libxfce4mcs-4.0.0   XFce 4 settings management library used by most XFce4 modu
> > > >>> libxfce4util-4.0.0  XFce 4 library with non-graphical helper functions
> > > >>> libxml-1.8.17_1     Xml parser library for GNOME
> > > >>> libxml2-2.6.2_1     Xml parser library for GNOME
> > > >>> pkg_info: read_plist: bad command '@crcent */,'
> > > >>
> > > >> If you list the contents of the /var/db/pkg/ directory
> > > >> alphabetically, what comes after libxml2-2.6.2_1, and what
> > > >> are the contents of the '+CONTENTS' file in that directory?
> > > >
> > > > linux_base-8-8.0_2 (which I'm pretty sure I pkg_deleted a few days ago)
> > >
> > > Something must've gone wrong with that delete then.
> > >
> > > > I'm not gonna dump the entire contents of +CONTENTS here, but the bad
> > > > line seems to be:
> > > [snip]
> > > > Next time I'm in DragonFly, I'll try and pkg_delete it again.
> > >
> > > You can try, but pkg_delete may get stuck where pkg_info did.
> > > You may be able to just delete the offending line.  Or if you
> > > can track down the contents and delete them by hand then you may
> > > be able to just rm -rf that directory.
> > >
> > > You can also remove the '+CONTENTS' file and do a forced reinstall
> > > just to be able to do a clean delete.  Might be interesting to see
> > > if the corruption happens again.
> > >
> > > Whatever you do, be sure to run pkgdb -F a lot.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Skip
> > >
> >
> > This is because of the conflict keyword that has been added to pkg_*,
> > Hiten fixed it for pkg_add, I'll take a look at it for the rest of the
> > pkg_* pack.
> >
>
> I don't seem to be able to reproduce this at the moment. Could you
> compress you /var/db/pkg and send it to me or upload it somewhere?
> Would be a great help.
>
> --
> Eirik Nygaard
> eirikn at xxxxxxxxxxxx

Well, it's already fixed on my end, otherwise I would.  I just did a
FORCE_PKG_REGISTER and installed.  Suddenly, I no longer had any problems.

I then remembered that when I went to delete the linux_base package
previously, I had run into the ATA errors I  mentioned in another post. I
think this is what left my pkg database in a funky state.

Adam