From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 4 17:37:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.halplant.com (ip68-100-145-31.nv.nv.cox.net [68.100.145.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA03937B400 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 17:37:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.halplant.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 05C101DF; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 20:37:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 20:37:52 -0400 From: Andrew J Caines To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ports database problem Message-ID: <20020605003752.GF4964@hal9000.halplant.com> Reply-To: Andrew J Caines Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020604180503.A29935@seekingfire.com> <20020604172401.A68777@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020604183230.C29935@seekingfire.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020604183230.C29935@seekingfire.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: H.A.L. Plant X-PGP-Fingerprint: C59A 2F74 1139 9432 B457 0B61 DDF2 AA61 67C3 18A1 X-Powered-by: FreeBSD 4.6-RC X-URL: http://halplant.com:88/ Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tillman, > Like so: > rm -rf /var/db/pkg/* > pkgdb -F Napalming the whole area is not necessary. # > /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db Then go ahead an use portupgrade, as it will rebuild the database. -Andrew- -- _______________________________________________________________________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer A.J.Caines@halplant.com | | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary | | safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message