Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 03:48:28 -0500 From: Mark Kane <mark@mkproductions.org> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP for portmaster users: Mandatory upgrade Message-ID: <20070807034828.1baa9b61@localhost> In-Reply-To: <46B6A35A.1040904@FreeBSD.org> References: <46B55E1C.3020601@FreeBSD.org> <20070805164308.252ff22d@localhost> <46B6A35A.1040904@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sun, Aug 05, 2007, at 21:28:10 -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> For the ones where there are still files in the pkg directory,
> "corrupted" usually means that the permissions are wrong on those
> files. Try this:
> chown -R root:wheel /var/db/pkg
> find /var/db/pkg -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
> find /var/db/pkg -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
>
> That should fix you up.
>
[...]
> For those ports I'm afraid the only way to reliably reproduce the pkg
> data is to rebuild and reinstall. If you don't use too many weird
> options you could probably get away with downloading the packages and
> using the pkg data from those. Then the next time you use portmaster
> to update those ports it will properly rebuild the pkgdep and
> +REQUIRED_BY stuff.
>
> hope this helps,
>
> Doug
The permissions change had no effect but reinstalling those ports seems
to have worked fine :).
Thanks!
-Mark
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