From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 22 17:33:24 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7320E16A468 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:33:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesh@lanl.gov) Received: from mailwasher.lanl.gov (mailwasher.lanl.gov [204.121.3.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AEAF13C4A3 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:33:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesh@lanl.gov) Received: from mailrelay3.lanl.gov (mailrelay3.lanl.gov [128.165.4.104]) by mailwasher.lanl.gov (8.13.8/8.13.8/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id l9MHX7TA005128; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:33:07 -0600 Received: from oppie-mail.lanl.gov (oppie-mail.lanl.gov [128.165.4.123]) by mailrelay3.lanl.gov (8.13.8/8.13.8/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id l9MHX6wf020530; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:33:06 -0600 Received: from [128.165.86.10] (secretariat.lanl.gov [128.165.86.10]) by oppie-mail.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E2CD1F8002; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:33:03 -0600 (MDT) From: James To: RW In-Reply-To: <1192803142.73574.9.camel@secretariat.lanl.gov> References: <1192134379.33933.9.camel@secretariat.lanl.gov> <200710122313.59809.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <20071013011349.66164ced@gumby.homeunix.com.> <200710131705.11020.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <20071013221326.78ede247@gumby.homeunix.com.> <1192733493.64553.67.camel@secretariat.lanl.gov> <20071018201141.49b2493a@gumby.homeunix.com.> <1192803142.73574.9.camel@secretariat.lanl.gov> Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratories Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:33:29 -0600 Message-Id: <1193074409.73574.67.camel@secretariat.lanl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-CTN-5-MailScanner-Information: Please see http://network.lanl.gov/email/virus-scan.php X-CTN-5-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CTN-5-MailScanner-From: jamesh@lanl.gov X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jamesh@lanl.gov List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:33:24 -0000 > > > > Feeding pkgdb/pkg_which a port creates a directory for that port > in /var/db/pkg. > > It then returned a question mark, which kind of sucked, silence being > golden in unix, but I had an entry for openmpi appear in /var/db/pkg > > Is this really just meaningless grasping at straws? It looked like this > in conjunction with pkgdb -L would work. > > James I've been running this for a while now, and it looks like it's working, it just needs liberal doses of pkgdb -F occasionally. James