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Subject: Re: regenerating /var/db/pkg
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On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 08:56:39AM -0500, Dan Rue wrote:
> We're starting to use SSDs for boot drives in our freebsd boxes.  We'd
> like to have /var on a memory backed FS, but losing the package database
> on every reboot is troublesome.  

Tried using a symlink from /var/db/pkg to /usr/local/.pkgdb or so?

Joerg