Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 15:24:41 -0500 From: Parv <parv@pair.com> To: Fernan Aguero <fernan@iib.unsam.edu.ar>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>, Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org>, Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>, eoghan <freebsd@redry.net> Subject: Re: pkgdb format Message-ID: <20060104202441.GB95076@holestein.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <43B3F22D.5070601@freebsd.org> References: <43B3EEF9.3010004@freebsd.org> <43B3F22D.5070601@freebsd.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
in message <43B3F22D.5070601@freebsd.org>, wrote Fernan Aguero
thusly...
>
> The pkgdb.db file got rebuild the first time, and then everything
> worked right until portupgrade reinstalled databases/ruby-bdb1.
> From this point on, the rebuilding of pkgdb.db started,
> alternating between bdm_hash and dbd1_btree
I personally never had problem w/ pkgdb update and type of the db
format used. Then again i do not use portupgrade (& assortments)
much.
> Anyway, I just wanted to add that I've been unable to find
> documentation on the format of the pkgdb.db file ... 'man -k
> pkgdb' turns up pkgdb(1), but there is nothing there regarding the
> alternative formats (hash/btree) or how to set them explicitly.
sysutils/portupgrade needs databases/ruby18-bdb4 which needs
databases/db4. Some of the files installed w/ db4 are in
/usr/local/bin/db4_* and /misc/local/share/doc/db4/{utility,ref}. At
least two of them relate to db4_verify. Well, running ...
db4_verify /var/db/package/pkgdb.db
... prints lots of error messages. All that looking around for no
good, but wait ...
file /var/db/package/pkgdb.db
/var/db/package/pkgdb.db: Berkeley DB 1.85 (Hash, version 2, native byte-order)
... so my version of pkgdb.db is in hash format. Try that on yours.
- Parv
--
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20060104202441.GB95076>