Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 22:28:21 +0100 (BST) From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk Subject: Re: removing non-existent ports from /var/db/pkg ? Message-ID: <201210022128.q92LSLkj086275@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <506B28C6.5060602@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> On 02/10/2012 12:38, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > [ Matthew Seaman wrote on Tue 2.Oct'12 at 12:13:05 +0100 ] >=20 > =20 >> At the moment, the only way to clear up is to manually remove the >> outdated subdirectories from /var/db/ports. You can work out what is >> out of date by comparing the list of sub-dirs to the list of installed= >> ports obtained by >> >> pkg info -aq >> >> Should only take a few minutes to write a small script to do that. >> >> Be careful not to trash local.sqlite, repo.sqlite or auditfile -- in >> fact, anything in /var/db/pkg which is not a directory should be prese= rved. >> >> Note: even if you do delete subdirs that are actually still in use, th= is >> shouldn't be a huge disaster. The only data still in those directorie= s >> will be portmaster's cache of distfile info (which it can cope without= : >> it uses it to efficiently identify old distfiles that can themselves b= e >> tidied up) and flag files like +IGNOREME which you will want to >> regenerate before you next do a ports update. >=20 > Ok, thanks for clarifying that for us. Very much appreciated.=20 I just committed this: http://git.io/G2qIIg Which makes the patch compatible with portmaster-3.14 and also now makes portmaster remove superfluous subdirectories of $PKG_DBDIR when removing any packages. This should keep $PKG_DBDIR reasonably tidy going forwards, but it won't clean up all of the existing problem subdirs. For that you'll need a one-off job to clean up as described above. Thanks, the patch applied fine. Will see what happens with $PKG_DBDIR next time I update something. Anton
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