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Date:      Wed, 9 Apr 2014 09:50:25 -0700
From:      Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
To:        marino@freebsd.org
Cc:        Jakob Breivik Grimstveit <jakob@grimstveit.no>, FreeBSD Ports mailing list <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, Melvyn Sopacua <melvyn@magemana.nl>
Subject:   Re: Repair pkgng
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On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 3:58 AM, John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st>wrote:

> 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
>

Unless you use portmaster which does drop distfiles into
/var/db/pkg/PORTNAME/. It's not pkgng that puts it there.

-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com



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