Re: pkgsrc question

[Ezra Drummond <ezra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kevin L. Kane wrote:
> Based on what i've been reading i should be able to create a binary
> package of something after its installed, however if i do 'bmake
> package' after i already did 'bmake install' it fails with errors, and
> the only way to fix this is to 'pkg_delete <package>' and then do
> 'bmake package'(which not only creates the binary package but installs
> as well and will fail to create the binary package if it cannot
> install).  Is this normal, the documentation I look at for netbsd
> seems to suggest that i can cd into a package dir, then do this:
>
> bmake
> bmake install
> bmake package
>
> however on dfly that same sequence results in breakage, heres some
> example output:
>
> prometheus# cd /usr/pkgsrc/misc/screen
> prometheus# bmake install
>
> LOTS OF OUTPUT SCREEN INSTALLS WORKS FINE then:
>
> prometheus# bmake package
> WARNING: [depends.mk] Unknown object format for installed package
> digest-20050731
> => Required installed package digest>=20010302: digest-20050731 found
> ===> Skipping vulnerability checks.
> WARNING: No /usr/pkgsrc/distfiles/pkg-vulnerabilities file found.
> WARNING: To fix, install the pkgsrc/security/audit-packages
> WARNING: package and run: ``/usr/pkg/sbin/download-vulnerability-list''.
> ===> Installing for screen-4.0.3
> ERROR: screen-4.0.3 is already installed - perhaps an older version?
> ERROR: If so, you may use either of:
> ERROR:     - "pkg_delete screen-4.0.3" and "/usr/pkg/bin/bmake reinstall"
> ERROR:       to upgrade properly
> ERROR:     - "/usr/pkg/bin/bmake update" to rebuild the package and all
> ERROR:       of its dependencies
> ERROR:     - "/usr/pkg/bin/bmake replace" to replace only the package 
> without
> ERROR:       re-linking dependencies, risking various problems.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop.
> bmake: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/misc/screen
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop.
> bmake: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/misc/screen
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop.
> bmake: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/misc/screen
> prometheus#
>
> Any thoughts?
Install /usr/pkgsrc/pkgtool/pkg_tarup and then do a man pkg_tarup to 
learn how to use it.