Re: "make update" question

"Peter I. Hansen" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.help
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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 don´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.
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