Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:42:21 -0800 From: "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Packages Corrupted Message-ID: <200503302042.21595.ringworm01@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <004601c535a9$e707a430$6402a8c0@kevin> References: <c6ef380c0503290643698b1320@mail.gmail.com> <c6ef380c05032906585dffa9f2@mail.gmail.com> <004601c535a9$e707a430$6402a8c0@kevin>
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On Wednesday 30 March 2005 08:27 pm, KP wrote: > I installed apache, php and mysql with pkg_add, unfortunately I > messed up the directory /var/db during moving and linking. Now when I > pkg_delete or pkg_add any php related packages, always got the error > message: "the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt", tried > "pkgdb -F" and it didn't work. This is a new server running 5.3 > release, just installed serveral packages, but with the error > message, I feel the system totally corrupted. Is it possible to fix > this? Many thanks in advance! > Kevin If /var/db is "messed up" there is no way to know which installed package is associated with which port. If you don't see any package names listed under /var/db/pkg they are as good as not being installed as far as the ports system is concerned. You should never fool with anything under /var/db/pkg, always leave that to the ports system to handle. What is the status of /var/db/pkg now? Are there any package names listed in it? -Mike
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