Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:30:01 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Akinori MUSHA <knu@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/sysutils/portupgrade Makefile distinfo Message-ID: <20011009153001.Z59854@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <200110092023.f99KNlI60557@freefall.freebsd.org>; from knu@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 01:23:47PM -0700 References: <200110092023.f99KNlI60557@freefall.freebsd.org>
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* Akinori MUSHA <knu@FreeBSD.org> [011009 15:24] wrote: > knu 2001/10/09 13:23:47 PDT > > Modified files: > sysutils/portupgrade Makefile distinfo > Log: > Update to 20011010.1, with a couple of fixes. > > pkgdb: > Fix a type error and unbreak date-based pkg glob. > [Reported by: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>] > > portupgrade: > Silence pkg_info when it does not find a package. > [Submitted by: Jimmy Olgeni <olgeni@uli.it>] > > Revision Changes Path > 1.84 +2 -2 ports/sysutils/portupgrade/Makefile > 1.75 +1 -1 ports/sysutils/portupgrade/distinfo > Both of these programs throw a really bad error message when the package database is corrupt or broken, something like: "Can't instance IO" Perhaps the opening of the databases could be wrapped in a try block that explains that the reason it may have failed was because of a corrupt /var/db/pkg/pkg.db file and the user should back it and and try to regenerate it. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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