Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:28:31 +0400 From: Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> To: Aijaz Baig <aijaz.abaig@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pkg_info corrupt for some packages Message-ID: <20080411162830.GC1547@amilo.cenkes.org> In-Reply-To: <101a1afc0804110732u8b2a16k24caa639258e7f42@mail.gmail.com> References: <101a1afc0804110732u8b2a16k24caa639258e7f42@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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