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> On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 10:23:58PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote:
>> My machine just suffered a power-failure 6 hrs into a portupgrade -a
>> I restarted it after a pkgdb -F
>> Did I do the right thing?

> Yep, that should be pretty safe (assuming e.g. fsck didn't discover
> that the power failure caused filesystem corruption and lost files).

If the database appears to be corrupted you can try a `pkgdb -fu` in
order to rebuild it.

-- 
-jg.