Re: 6.6 pkg_add of firefox vs atk versions

Hi Stuart,
Here's the full typescript attached. The list itself chops off
attachments I think, but I am sure any of us can delete my email, or even
save after deleting the attachment, as I often do within alpine with long
videos of funny cats, or political polemics that my relatives can't resist
sending.

Austin


On Sun, 2 Aug 2020, Stuart Henderson wrote:

> On 2020/08/01 16:53, Austin Hook wrote:
> > Stuart suggested sending the entire pkg_add -u" output for a quick scan
> > of my foolishness, so I an including it at the bottom of this email --
> > lines chopped at character 78, because all the linking stuff makes it half
> > a megabyte, which seems excessive to burden the archives with. Maybe
> > seeing the full link into is not necessary to allow one more comment if
> > any of you folks care to peek at my pkg_add -u output.
>
> Full output would be better, I think that chopping at column 78 has
> truncated some useful information. At least I didn't spot the direct
> cause of the problem (though clearly there's an issue with handling
> the gettext packages, which was split/renamed - this certainly causes
> some issues for pkg_add, though in cases that I've seen before just
> rerunning pkg_add -u was enough to clear it up).
>
> Good that you considered the lists (I wish people who send multi-
> megabyte fuzzy photos of panic messages that they could have typed in
> fairly easily would do the same...) but they can cope with 500K once
> in a while, or sending as a gzipped attachment would shrink it a lot.
>
>
> If you need to get it fixed, the following should do the trick;
> save a list of packages, remove them all, and reinstall:
>
> pkg_info -mz >/root/pkg_list_manual
> pkg_info -z >/root/pkg_list_full
> pkg_delete -X /var/db/pkg/*-firmware-[0-9]*
> pkg_add -z -l /root/pkg_list_manual
> pkg_add -za -l /root/pkg_list_full
>
> but it would be good to get more details if possible first in case
> they point at a bug/something missing in pkg_add.
>
> > Merging nano-3.1->4.4 (ok)
> > Checking packages|No need to update python-3.4.5NOT MERGING: can't
>
> The missing text in lines like the above, or in some of the merge lines,
> might have something useful. But it's easier to include everything
> rather than try to figure out what might help.
>
>