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Date:      Mon, 8 Jun 2020 13:35:32 +0530
From:      Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com>
To:        Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pkg update
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On 2020-06-08 13:33, Manish Jain wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2020-06-08 11:57, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>>> rm -rf/var/cache/pkg/* /var/db/pkg/repo-*.sqlite
>>> pkg bootstrap -f
>>> pkg update -f
>>>
>> Doing this will really spoil your day.  The first command removes all of
>> the accumulated knowledge your system has about what packages are
>> installed, meaning the third command will*only*  know about pkg(8) for
>> the forced update.  Recovering from this situation is quite painful.
> 
> 
> Hi Matthew,
> 
> I would think that the system has about what packages are
> installed is hived under /var/db/pkg/local.sqlite (which my command 
> pointedly spares out).
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Manish Jain


Please excuse the typo : that was meant to read

"I would think that the knowledge the system has"

Sorry,
Manish Jain



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