Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 07:48:05 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Christer Solskogen <solskogen@carebears.mine.nu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: removing pkgdb.db, and re-generate it Message-ID: <20050215154805.GB11423@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <42120D6D.6040002@carebears.mine.nu> References: <42120D6D.6040002@carebears.mine.nu>
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--CUfgB8w4ZwR/yMy5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 03:55:41PM +0100, Christer Solskogen wrote: > Just for the kicks of it I tried removing > /var/db/pkgdb.db, and re-generate it by running pkgdb. >=20 > The funny thing is that the file is taking lesser space. > (from 4.6M to 3.9M) - not that it is much, but still why? Maybe the database gets fragmented over time from entries being removed, or maybe it's using a different file format. Kris --CUfgB8w4ZwR/yMy5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCEhm0Wry0BWjoQKURAiewAJ4rsZxyzs+i748hOght4ROnr5XCLgCfUplC kxferk5nvP/v3rhMkDMGOlM= =IbfO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --CUfgB8w4ZwR/yMy5--
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