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On 4/9/2014 12:38, Melvyn Sopacua wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 8 Apr 2014, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> 
>>>> /var/db/pkg/libyaml-0.1.6/distfiles
> ...
>>
>> No, once you run pkgng, these files are in /var/db/pkg. The only files in
>> /var/db/ports are options files.
> 
> Ah, my bad.
> Though it makes no sense in my mind. Distfiles belong to ports not
> packages. What problem was solved by moving this?
> 

It did not "move".
A clean /var/db/pkg has these contents (or similar):
  auditfile
  local.sqlite
  repo-FreeBSD.sqlite
  vuln.xml

A clean /var/db/ports directory has these contents
  */options


That's it.  No distfiles.

John