Re: Broken vim

[David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 09:55:24PM +0000, John Klos wrote:
 > Can someone please tell me why we can't fix vim and vim-share? This has
 > been breaking rolling updates for years.
 > 
 > 
 > => Creating binary package /usr/pkgsrc/packages/All/vim-share-8.0.0702.tgz
 > ===> replace-message [vim-share-8.0.0702] ===> Replacing for
 > vim-share-8.0.0702
 > ===> replace-destdir [vim-share-8.0.0702] ===> Updating using binary
 > package of vim-share-8.0.0702
 > /usr/sbin/pkg_add -K /var/db/pkg -U -D
 > /usr/pkgsrc/editors/vim-share/work/.packages/vim-share-8.0.0702.tgz
 > pkg_add: Can't open +CONTENTS of depending package vim-8.0.0425
 > pkg_add: 1 package addition failed
 > *** Error code 1

I think this means your pkgdb is corrupt, not that the package is
broken... try running pkg_admin rebuild-tree (and probably also
pkg_admin rebuild)

would be nice to find out why this happens sometimes, of course...

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost