Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 06:38:54 -0500 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org>, "Danny Braniss" <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports and /var/db/pkg Message-ID: <025401c2fa9e$c60fdba0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <E191P70-000Iw8-00@cs.huji.ac.il>
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> > > > ok, so i wrote a small script (tcl, since i don't know perl), that > > > does some checking, it reports for each package, the number of files > > > how many are realy there, and if so, checks the MD5. > > > > > > now, if im not to far off, if some/all files are missing, or if the > > > md5 does not match, i should be able to remove the package info, ... > > > > Well, that's not what you were asking for originally, and tools > > already exist to check that. > > OK, let me refrase it > > PROBLEM: > how to update /var/db/pkg, when it knows too much, > i.e. /usr/local has less stuff that /var/db/pkg knows about. > > > > > e.g. pkg_info -g and the example from the pkg_which(1) manpage that I > > mentioned to you in a previous email. > > i read most of the pkg*, and though im very impressed, i fail to find a > clear/easy way to get a one line output saying: > pkg xyz no longer exits, can be removed from database > thanks, > danny If you know that package XYZ exists in /var/db/pkg but isn't in /usr/local (probably because you didn't 'make deinstall' or pkg_delete it), just do this: rm -rf /var/db/pkg/XYZ -- Matt Emmerton
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