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Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 17:45:37 -0700
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Ports database problem
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On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 06:32:30PM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 05:24:02PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 06:05:03PM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote:
> > > Howdy,
> > >=20
> > > This doesn't look healthy:
> > >=20
> > > [root@coyote ports]# portversion
> > > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/portsdb.rb:474: [BUG] Segmentation =
fault
> > > ruby 1.6.7 (2002-05-01) [i386-freebsd4]
> > > Abort trap (core dumped)
> > >=20
> > > pkgdb -F doesn't correct it. Any ideas how I would go about manually
> > > correcting the problem?
> >=20
> > Remove the portupgrade database files and let them be recreated.
>=20
> Like so:
>=20
> rm -rf /var/db/pkg/*
> pkgdb -F
>=20
> ?

No, the _portupgrade_ database files.

/var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db
/usr/ports/INDEX.db

If you blow away all of your package registration files there'll be
nothing at all left for portupgrade or the package system to work
with.

Kris

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