From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 4 18:33:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blues.hodgsonhouse.com (trickster.hodgsonhouse.com [24.72.10.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 712D137B405 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 18:33:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tillman@localhost) by blues.hodgsonhouse.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g551XuE30551 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 19:33:56 -0600 Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 19:33:56 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ports database problem Message-ID: <20020604193356.B30415@seekingfire.com> References: <20020604180503.A29935@seekingfire.com> <20020604172401.A68777@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020604183230.C29935@seekingfire.com> <20020605003752.GF4964@hal9000.halplant.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020605003752.GF4964@hal9000.halplant.com>; from A.J.Caines@halplant.com on Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 08:37:52PM -0400 X-Editor: Vim Rocks! http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt Rocks! http://www.mutt.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 08:37:52PM -0400, Andrew J Caines wrote: > Tillman, > > > Like so: > > rm -rf /var/db/pkg/* > > pkgdb -F > > Napalming the whole area is not necessary. > > # > /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db > > Then go ahead an use portupgrade, as it will rebuild the database. Thanks muchly, that did indeed fix the problem. -T -- It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. Eugene Ionesco To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message