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Date:      Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:23:03 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?V=E1clav_Haisman?= <v.haisman@sh.cvut.cz>
To:        Andrew Reilly <andrew-freebsd@areilly.bpc-users.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Weird portmaster behaviour -- everything fails to install
Message-ID:  <4A6EA757.8060600@sh.cvut.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20090728001238.GA97218@duncan.reilly.home>
References:  <20090726222403.GA19875@duncan.reilly.home> <20090728001238.GA97218@duncan.reilly.home>

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Andrew Reilly wrote:
> Problem solved!
> 
> In case anyone is interested, or has encountered a similar
> problem, I believe that my problem was that somehow my
> /var/db/pkg directory had a whole pile of near-duplicate entries
> corresponding to port revisions.  Portmaster was checking the
> installed version against the MD5 hashes in the "old" version
> +CONTENTS file, and they weren't matching.  I assume that I
> acquired all of these out-of-date pkg entries through a backup
> restore mishap: I've been having gmirror issues lately (not
> gmirror's fault, I think -- just a series of dodgy hard drives.)
> 
> All is good again.  No duplicate db/pkg entries at last, and
> portmaster runs to completion as intended.
How have you managed to fix the duplicate entries? Can pkgdb -Ffu or
such fix that?

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