Solved db5-5.3.28_9 symlink: libdb-5.3.so.0.0.0: File exists

[bagas]

Hello.
How to fix?

cd /usr/ports/databases/db5/work/stage/usr/local/bin/db5;  for i in *; do /bin/ln -s -f db5/$i ../$i-5.3 ;  /bin/ln -s -f db5/$i ../$i-5 ; done
/bin/rm -f -r /usr/ports/databases/db5/work/stage/usr/local/share/doc/db5/java
/bin/rm -f -r /usr/ports/databases/db5/work/stage/usr/local/share/doc/db5/gsg/JAVA
/bin/rm -f -r /usr/ports/databases/db5/work/stage/usr/local/share/doc/db5/gsg_db_rep/JAVA
/bin/rm -f -r /usr/ports/databases/db5/work/stage/usr/local/share/doc/db5/gsg_txn/JAVA
/bin/rm -f -r /usr/ports/databases/db5/work/stage/usr/local/share/doc/db5/api_reference/TCL
====> Compressing man pages (compress-man)
--->  Backing up the old version
pkg: unknown format pkg, using the default
--->  Uninstalling the old version
[Reading data from pkg(8) ... - 223 packages found - done]
--->  Deinstalling 'db5-5.3.28_8'
--->  Preserving /usr/local/lib/db5/libdb-5.3.so.0 as /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/libdb-5.3.so.0
cp: symlink: libdb-5.3.so.0.0.0: File exists
Copy failed!
[Reading data from pkg(8) ... - 223 packages found - done]
** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed)
    ! db5-5.3.28_8    (copy failed)
** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed)
    ! databases/db5 (db5-5.3.28_8)    (uninstall error)

ls -al /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/libdb-5.3.so.0
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  18 11 марта  2021 /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/libdb-5.3.so.0 -> db5/libdb-5.3.so.0

pkg version -vl '<'
db5-5.3.28_8                       <   needs updating (index has 5.3.28_9)

 

[T-Daemon]

How to fix?

You didn't notice the workaround in the first comment of the bug report when posting there:

261549 – databases/db5: updating error with compat symlinks

bugs.freebsd.org

peter.larsen   2022-01-29 08:43:05 UTC        

I always end up deleting files before being able to update db5

rm -rf /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/libdb-5.3.so.0.0.0
rm -rf /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/libdb-5.3.so.0
rm -rf /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/libdb_cxx-5.3.so.0.0.0
rm -rf /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/libdb_cxx-5.3.so.0
rm -rf /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/libdb_cxx-5.so.0
rm -rf /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/libdb_stl-5.3.so.0.0.0
rm -rf /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/libdb_stl-5.3.so.0
rm -rf /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/libdb_stl-5.so.0
rm -rf /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/libdb-5.3.so.0
rm -rf /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/libdb-5.3.so.0.0.0
rm -rf /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/libdb-5.so.0
rm -rf /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/libdb-5.so.0.0.0

 

[bagas]

Thank you.
Did so.

cd /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg && find . -type l -exec test ! -e {} \; -delete