From owner-cvs-all Tue Oct 9 16:32:31 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14DC537B405; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 16:32:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from moo.holy.cow (sdn-ar-007dcwashP291.dialsprint.net [63.178.90.157]) by gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA04111; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 16:32:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B151A50BC5; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 19:33:14 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 19:33:14 -0400 From: parv To: Akinori MUSHA Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/sysutils/portupgrade Makefile distinfo Message-ID: <20011009193314.A1666@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: Akinori MUSHA , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org References: <200110092023.f99KNlI60557@freefall.freebsd.org> <20011009153001.Z59854@elvis.mu.org> <861ykc4kaz.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <861ykc4kaz.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org>; from knu@iDaemons.org on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 05:42:28AM +0900 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG this was, on the fateful occasion around Oct 09 16:42 -0400, sent by Akinori MUSHA > > 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 ... > 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. seems like that will take care of pr's like 31168. much appreciated your efforts. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message