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Date:      Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:01:20 -0500
From:      "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: regular portsdb maintanence
Message-ID:  <d7195cff0703282001n551508f9yec9d31c4560117d8@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070328002547.GN11147@tigger.digitaltorque.ca>
References:  <20070328002547.GN11147@tigger.digitaltorque.ca>

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On 27/03/07, Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just upgraded portupgrade, and it recommended that I run pkgdb -L to look
> for lost dependencies. This raised the question to me of what I should
> regularly run in cron jobs to maintain the db.
>
> Is it wise to put say, pkgdb -L into a weekly cron? Anything else?

I am not sure you would want to do that, as
if it were to overlap with a normal portupgrade
the results may be interesting.

The machine's day to day running depends not
at all on the pkgdb.  I would suggest that if you
sense that you need to keep atop these things
you run pkgdb -L about as often as you run
portupgrade -fr <something>.  If you do not have
to recursively rebuild (say for leaf packages)
pkgdb -L is redundant at best.

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