Subject: Re: Broken pkgtools/pkg_install
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Amitai Schlair <schmonz@schmonz.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/09/2003 08:29:19
Jonathan Perkin wrote:

> Has someone been smoking the crack pipe over Christmas or did I miss a
> HEADSUP somewhere?
> 
> --<jonp@sunf25>-</home/jonp/pkgsrc/lang/scheme48>--
> -% bmake
> => Checksum OK for scheme48-0.57.tgz.
> ===> Extracting for scheme48-0.57
> Your package tools need to be updated to 2002/11/23 versions.
> The installed package tools were last updated on 2002/08/27.
> Please "make install" in ../../pkgtools/pkg_install.
> 
> ok..
> 
> --<jonp@sunf25>-</home/jonp/pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install>--
> -% bmake
> ===> Extracting for pkg_install-20021123
> ===> Required package db>=2.7.3: NOT found
> ===> Verifying reinstall for ../../databases/db
> Your package tools need to be updated to 2002/11/23 versions.
> The installed package tools were last updated on 2002/08/27.
> Please "make install" in ../../pkgtools/pkg_install.
> 
> Solaris 7, latest pkgsrc, bootstrap-pkgsrc as of 20021209.

Sadly, I caused this without the benefit of crack. I just committed
what should be a fix, though I don't have a db-less system to test.
Mind updating your pkgsrc and trying again?

- Amitai