Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 12:38:50 +0100 From: Jamie Paul Griffin <jamie@kode5.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: removing non-existent ports from /var/db/pkg ? Message-ID: <20121002113850.GA82914@kontrol.kode5.net> In-Reply-To: <506ACC41.5000100@freebsd.org> References: <201210020808.q9288Y2J023975@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <506AB4C8.6020208@freebsd.org> <20121002103310.GA3931@kontrol.kode5.net> <506ACC41.5000100@freebsd.org>
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[ Matthew Seaman wrote on Tue 2.Oct'12 at 12:13:05 +0100 ] > 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 outdated subdirectories from /var/db/ports.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 out of date by comparing the list of sub-dirs to the list of installed 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 preserved. > > Note: even if you do delete subdirs that are actually still in use, this > shouldn't be a huge disaster. The only data still in those directories > will be portmaster's cache of distfile info (which it can cope without: > it uses it to efficiently identify old distfiles that can themselves be > tidied up) and flag files like +IGNOREME which you will want to > regenerate before you next do a ports update. Ok, thanks for clarifying that for us. Very much appreciated. Best wishes, Jamie
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