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Date:      Tue, 12 May 2015 10:03:43 +0100 (BST)
From:      Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, matthew@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: damage to pkg's sqlite data base
Message-ID:  <201505120903.t4C93hE4003241@mech-as222.men.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <5551BF3E.9060602@freebsd.org>

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>Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 09:52:14 +0100
>From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org>
>
>> 	2) how might such an event be avoided/prevented in the future?
>
>It's pretty rare judging by the lack of complaints we've had.  So long

Happened several times to me.

I never bothered to complain, thinking I messed someting up.
Since it's so easy to start from scratch,
i.e. delete all packages and replace anew,
corrupt pkg database hasn't really been a big
issue for me. I do think, however, that there
must be other reasons for corruption, except
an interruption at just the wrong time.

BTW, what's the use of /var/cache/pkg?
It's grown to > 2GB. Can I safely delete
all packages from there?

Thanks

Anton



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