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From: Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org>
To: Aijaz Baig <aijaz.abaig@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Pkg_info corrupt for some packages
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On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 04:32:32PM +0200, Aijaz Baig wrote:
> I was trying to find a way to list all the packages on my
> system and I came across this little article and accordingly
> issued the command *pkg_info | grep 'package name' *and I saw
> the following on the screen instead:
> 
> pkg_info: the package info for package 'Terminal-0.2.8' is corrupt
> ...
> pkg_info: the package info for package 'xorg-server-1.4_4,1' is corrupt
> 
> How did the pkg_info information for the above mentioned
> packages became corrupt?..

Possibly the usual portupgrade fckup^Wglitch.

> Is there to fix this problem?

Reinstall all packages.

> Furthermore, how do see the list of all the
> available(installed) packages on my system?

ls /var/db/pkg