Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 00:42:56 -0700 (PDT) From: David Moler <dbmoler@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: broken pkgdb Message-ID: <20040422074256.32231.qmail@web10403.mail.yahoo.com>
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Greetings all, I hope someone might be able to help me out. My computer crashed while I was doing a portupgrade -arR. It seems that the +CONTENTS file was lost for 100 installed packages. Following advice from various mailing lists, I've tried rebuilding the pkgdb with pkgdb -Fu (didn't fix problem) and creating empty +CONTENTS files where they were deleted and rebuilding with pkgdb -Fu (pkg_info runs okay, but pkg_version reports each package "does not appear to be a valid package!"). Others suggested deleting and reinstalling the invalid packages, but I'm reluctant to do this for 100 packages. Is there any other way? Thanks for your help. David __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢ http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash
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