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From: Lapo Nustrini <lapo@seanet.com>
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Are you sure you don't mean to do:

# pkgdb -fu

Lapo

On Dec 15, 2004, at 10:21 PM, Noah wrote:

> FreeBSD-4.9
>
> any clues why this is happening?  the update of the package DB ends 
> off with
> invalid argument.
>
> --- snip ----
>
> # pkgdb -Fu
> --->  Updating the pkgdb
> Invalid argument
>
>
> ---- snip ---
>
>
> cheers,
>
> Noah
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