From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 4 04:42:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C57C737B401 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 04:42:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from cs.huji.ac.il (cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29DC443FAF for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 04:42:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danny@cs.huji.ac.il) Received: from pampa.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.80.32] ident=danny) by cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp id 191QWO-000M0L-00; Fri, 04 Apr 2003 15:42:16 +0300 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "Matthew Emmerton" In-Reply-To: Message from "Matthew Emmerton" <025401c2fa9e$c60fdba0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 15:42:16 +0300 From: Danny Braniss Message-Id: cc: hackers@freebsd.org cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: ports and /var/db/pkg X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:42:19 -0000 > > > > > > ok, so i wrote a small script (tcl, since i don't know perl), that > > > > does some checking, it reports for each package, the number of files > > > > how many are realy there, and if so, checks the MD5. > > > > > > > > now, if im not to far off, if some/all files are missing, or if the > > > > md5 does not match, i should be able to remove the package info, ... > > > > > > Well, that's not what you were asking for originally, and tools > > > already exist to check that. > > > > OK, let me refrase it > > > > PROBLEM: > > how to update /var/db/pkg, when it knows too much, > > i.e. /usr/local has less stuff that /var/db/pkg knows about. > > > > > > > > e.g. pkg_info -g and the example from the pkg_which(1) manpage that I > > > mentioned to you in a previous email. > > > > i read most of the pkg*, and though im very impressed, i fail to find a > > clear/easy way to get a one line output saying: > > pkg xyz no longer exits, can be removed from database > > thanks, > > danny > > If you know that package XYZ exists in /var/db/pkg but isn't in /usr/local > (probably because you didn't 'make deinstall' or pkg_delete it), just do > this: > > rm -rf /var/db/pkg/XYZ > sorry, no points. it's a correct answer but that was/is not the question :-) how do you know that XYZ is no longer there? sure, pkg_info -g will tell you which files are no longer there, or have bad md5, but is one file? or all files? danny > -- > Matt Emmerton >