On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 01:23:23PM -0800, paul beard wrote:
> what do these mean? Are they harmful?
> 
> pkg_info: show_file: can't open '+COMMENT' for reading
> pkg_info: show_file: can't open '+COMMENT' for reading
> pkg_info: show_file: can't open '+COMMENT' for reading
> pkg_info: show_file: can't open '+COMMENT' for reading

I suspect they mean that your /var/db/pkg/ has been messed up.

Each directory in /var/db/pkg/ should have a +COMMENT file, and when they
don't, the "pkg_info -aI" run from "/usr/pkg/sbin/bsdpak" generates the
above errors.

The error message is harmless in itself, but I wonder how the +COMMENT
files became missing in the first place.

Ben