Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 19:33:14 -0400 From: parv <parv_@yahoo.com> To: Akinori MUSHA <knu@iDaemons.org> 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> In-Reply-To: <861ykc4kaz.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org>; from knu@iDaemons.org on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 05:42:28AM %2B0900 References: <200110092023.f99KNlI60557@freefall.freebsd.org> <20011009153001.Z59854@elvis.mu.org> <861ykc4kaz.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org>
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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
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