Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 05:42:28 +0900 From: "Akinori MUSHA" <knu@iDaemons.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/sysutils/portupgrade Makefile distinfo Message-ID: <861ykc4kaz.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> In-Reply-To: <20011009153001.Z59854@elvis.mu.org> References: <200110092023.f99KNlI60557@freefall.freebsd.org> <20011009153001.Z59854@elvis.mu.org>
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At Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:30:01 -0500,
Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 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.
Yes, I have it on my ToDo list. I'm working on getting things more
stable and robust. I've just made all the tools work either with or
without a pkgdb.db file, and that is the next task I must accomplish.
I'm going to make the pkg db routines to differentiate unrecoverable
errors from recoverable errors and automatically regenerate a pkg db
as necessary, so users won't need to take care of their db's
themselves.
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