Portinstall/upgrade stops with no error

[Doug Lee]

System: FreeBSD-STABLE (4.10). Ports updated recently, but I've had
trouble with the database and probably never straightened it out.

Problem: "portinstall lang/perl5.8" and other similar attempts to
install ports abort quietly. With -v, I just see session started,
nothing installed or upgraded, session ended. I can install any port
via make install though (perl is going in now thus). I have run pkgdb
-fu, then pkgdb -F, then just in case, pkgdb -fu again; no change.
I've run make index several times, but not today (this is a P166, so
make index takes a while).

I think my ports database must be irreparably hosed, but I welcome
suggestions on how to salvage things. :-)

Please Cc me.


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Doug Lee [email]dgl@dlee.org[/email] [url]http://www.dlee.org[/url]
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"The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them
to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum

[Michael C. Shultz]

On Friday 25 February 2005 09:26 pm, Doug Lee wrote:

> System: FreeBSD-STABLE (4.10). Ports updated recently, but I've had
> trouble with the database and probably never straightened it out.
>
> Problem: "portinstall lang/perl5.8" and other similar attempts to
> install ports abort quietly. With -v, I just see session started,
> nothing installed or upgraded, session ended. I can install any port
> via make install though (perl is going in now thus). I have run
> pkgdb -fu, then pkgdb -F, then just in case, pkgdb -fu again; no
> change. I've run make index several times, but not today (this is a
> P166, so make index takes a while).
>
> I think my ports database must be irreparably hosed, but I welcome
> suggestions on how to salvage things. :-)
>
> Please Cc me.

Try sysutils/portmanager