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Date:      Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:10:19 +0100
From:      Melvyn Sopacua <freebsd.ports@melvyn.homeunix.org>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cleaning ports manually?
Message-ID:  <200512241210.19595.freebsd.ports@melvyn.homeunix.org>
In-Reply-To: <200512232045.18844.ringworm01@gmail.com>
References:  <21bc91010512232023q518c6eeej2dda453e08fcd756@mail.gmail.com> <200512232045.18844.ringworm01@gmail.com>

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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

-- 
Melvyn Sopacua
freebsd.ports@melvyn.homeunix.org

FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE
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