My home directory is mounted via NFS, and the root user has no privileges there. So, when I became root to do 'pkgin install' from my home directory, pkgin couldn't read . (the current directory). I didn't think about this for a while, though.
Running 'pkgin install ansible' appeared to work, but didn't actually install anything:
I banged my head against this one for a while.
My home directory is mounted via NFS, and the root user has no privileges there. So, when I became root to do 'pkgin install' from my home directory, pkgin couldn't read . (the current directory). I didn't think about this for a while, though.
Running 'pkgin install ansible' appeared to work, but didn't actually install anything:
It wasn't until I got frustrated and tried 'pkgin -V install ansible' that I discovered the problem:
Aha! A simple 'cd /' first fixed it. But telling me that there were no warnings or errors threw me off the trail for a while.