Re: pkg/38166: crash in pkg_info

[David Holland <dholland%eecs.harvard.edu@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/38166; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland%eecs.harvard.edu@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: joerg%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
        dholland%eecs.harvard.edu@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/38166: crash in pkg_info
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 15:53:34 -0500

 On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 02:10:03PM +0000, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
  > >   Owing to some assorted lossage I ended up the other day with a
  > >   package directory in /var/db/pkg that contained nothing but a
  > >   core file.
  >  
  >  Can you try the attached patch instead? It should apply to pkgsrc as
  >  well.
 
 With that I get
 
          :
        esound-0.2.38       The Enlightened sound daemon
        seamonkey-gtk1-1.1.8 Full featured gecko-based browser built with GTK1
        pkg_info: cannot read meta data file +COMMENT: No such file or
        directory
        Exit 2
        # 
 
 which is not entirely desirable in the context of the nightly pkg_info
 run, since it's going to cause /etc/security's diffing to think that
 half the packages on the system have been removed.
 
 (Also it doesn't say which package is broken.)
 
 
 
  . o O ( Why do I have esound installed? Maybe that's the problem. )
 
 -- 
    - David A. Holland / dholland%eecs.harvard.edu@localhost