On Tuesday, April 2, 2002, at 09:53 PM, collver@linuxfreemail.com wrote:

> 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.
>

	I got this message after installing digest-20010320.  After adding 
a +COMMENT file into /var/dp/pkg/digest-20010320 pkg_info is happy again.

Ian

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