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Date:      Sat, 24 Dec 2005 05:12:08 -0800
From:      "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Cc:        Melvyn Sopacua <freebsd.ports@melvyn.homeunix.org>
Subject:   Re: cleaning ports manually?
Message-ID:  <200512240512.09527.ringworm01@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200512241210.19595.freebsd.ports@melvyn.homeunix.org>
References:  <21bc91010512232023q518c6eeej2dda453e08fcd756@mail.gmail.com> <200512232045.18844.ringworm01@gmail.com> <200512241210.19595.freebsd.ports@melvyn.homeunix.org>

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On Saturday 24 December 2005 03:10, Melvyn Sopacua wrote:
> On Saturday 24 December 2005 05:45, Michael C. Shultz wrote:
> > rm -r /var/db
> >
> > As far as I know the world will not be effected by removing the above
> > directories and if it is likely that is something that should be reported
> > through a PR (problem report).
>
> dhclient, entropy, ipf, mixer and a few more are affected by that. rm
> -r /var/db/pkg /var/db/ports would be cleaner. /var/db is part of base
> hier, see /etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist

Thanks for the info.  I was trying to get db/ports and db/pkg in one go,
quess that is a bad idea. :)

-Mike



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