Subject: Re: "make update" question
To: Huub <huubvanniekerk@gmail.com>
From: Peter I. Hansen <pih@xbase.dk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/19/2006 11:52:06
Huub wrote:
>>>>
>>>
>>> I did "make update" and have ended up with an almost completely
>>> broken system. This response is not from the NetBSD machine. Gnome,
>>> firefox, thunderbird etc etc don't work anymore. Fluxbox turned out
>>> to be intact, so I went back to that. Links worked as well, so at
>>> least I have access to the web. If I want to "make install" e.g.
>>> firefox, it reports that it can't open the zip-2.32 Makefile.
>>> What can I do now? I already updated pkgsrc by cvs. Should I
>>> completely remove pkgsrc and cvs it again?
>>> I tried to pkg_add packages, but my attempts strand by noticing that
>>> many links to amd64-current packagesdirectories donĀ“t work. How come?
>>> Incomplete updates?
>>
>> What is your output of 'pkgmanager sync'?
>>
>
> bash: pkgmanager: command not found
>
ok, so this also got deleted during the 'make update'...
I would then go to the wip/pkgmanager directory and try a 'make install'
to get this up and running.
When working with pkgmanager it's also important to have wip/pkgmanager
itself in the want list, because otherwise it will remove itself.