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Date:      Sat, 3 Nov 2012 18:16:23 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Darrel <levitch@iglou.com>
To:        Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: r2421600 amd64 /var/db/pkg
Message-ID:  <alpine.GSO.2.00.1211031809290.8996@shell1>
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>       Is it possible to regenerate the package database or somehow
>       start over? I am seeing errors like these:
>
>       pkg_info: Don't use the pkg_ tools if you are using pkgng
>       pkg_info: the package info for package 'ca_root_nss-3.14' is
>       corrupt
> 
> 
>     If you still have the binaries sitting in the port work directory, you
> could do make reinstall. There are other means to do this (make fake-pkg),
> but make reinstall is probably the quickest way..

Appears that all of the work is gone.  At second glance, it seems that the 
problem may stem from portmaster-3.14 *and* portmaster-3.14_7 existing in 
/var/db/pkg

I might need to just reduce that machine to a file server until there is 
time to do something new with it.

Thank you,
Darrel

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