Re: No package installation method works

[Daniel Horecki <morr+lists@xxxxxxx>]

Je Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:13:01 +0200 Sascha Wildner <saw@online.de>
scribis:

> On 10/20/2010 21:54, Torbjorn Granlund wrote:
> > A long term *BSD user, I decided to extend our GNU package nightly
> > test system setup with Dragonfly BSD.  This is an install under
> > virtualisation (qemu or Xen).
> >
> > The actual install went smoothly, but the package install have
> > failed utterly.
> >
> > I found http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/howtos/HowToPkgsrc/ and
> > have followed the various methods suggested there.  None works for
> > me.
> >
> > # uname -a
> > DragonFly biko-dflybsd64.gmplib.org 2.6-RELEASE DragonFly
> > v2.6.3-RELEASE #10: Mon May  3 09:57:53 PDT 2010
> > root@pkgbox64.dragonflybsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src-misc/sys/X86_64_GENERIC
> > x86_64
> >
> >
> > Method 1:
> >
> >      # pkg_radd bash
> >      pkg_add: Error: package `bash-4.1nb1' was built with a newer
> > pkg_install version pkg_add: 1 package addition failed
> >
> > (As far as I can tell, I am using the latest release of DragonFly.
> > And even if I didn't, shouldn't it be possible to install a package
> > with the existing tools?)
> 
> Yea, it's an issue. I know there is a workaround, but I forgot it at
> the moment. The real solution would be to provide packages that work
> for 2.6.3.
> 

(re)installing pkg_install from pkgsrc should work. 

morr

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