Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 07:57:40 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WANTED: Tool to verify installed package/port consistancy Message-ID: <518DEBE4.8010202@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <86885.1368216242@server1.tristatelogic.com> References: <86885.1368216242@server1.tristatelogic.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 10/05/2013 21:04, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > Anyway, at the moment, and for me at least, my results remain entirely > perplexing. I cannot imagine what might possibly be the explanation for > the results attached below. If anyone can offer a theory, I'm all ears. > Meanwhile, I'll be cleaning up my script a little bit and then, in short > order I hope, posting it here so that others can perhaps give it a try and > tell me if their results from it are at all similar to mine. I'd very much like to see results from a pkgng system with an equivalent number and types of packages and that has been maintained for a similar amount of time. But I think that's impossible: Ronald's machine almost certainly predates the availability of pkgng. Obviously the script would have to be modified, as you'll need to do a DB query to get all the checksums, rather than reading +CONTENTS files. Plus this shouldn't be a system that was converted to pkgng but that has used pkgng from the start. One of the big drivers for switching to using sqlite in pkgng rather than a collection of files is that it does give better protection against accidental corruption of package meta-data during normal package updates. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlGN6/QACgkQ8Mjk52CukIyEaACfZWGsbogPsyrpXDDUNGItBJlG 2uAAnjjBVZYcbk8YVWlg+4N2KRi9fbtG =IJCX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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