Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:23:03 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?V=E1clav_Haisman?= <v.haisman@sh.cvut.cz> To: Andrew Reilly <andrew-freebsd@areilly.bpc-users.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weird portmaster behaviour -- everything fails to install Message-ID: <4A6EA757.8060600@sh.cvut.cz> In-Reply-To: <20090728001238.GA97218@duncan.reilly.home> References: <20090726222403.GA19875@duncan.reilly.home> <20090728001238.GA97218@duncan.reilly.home>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Andrew Reilly wrote: > Problem solved! > > In case anyone is interested, or has encountered a similar > problem, I believe that my problem was that somehow my > /var/db/pkg directory had a whole pile of near-duplicate entries > corresponding to port revisions. Portmaster was checking the > installed version against the MD5 hashes in the "old" version > +CONTENTS file, and they weren't matching. I assume that I > acquired all of these out-of-date pkg entries through a backup > restore mishap: I've been having gmirror issues lately (not > gmirror's fault, I think -- just a series of dodgy hard drives.) > > All is good again. No duplicate db/pkg entries at last, and > portmaster runs to completion as intended. How have you managed to fix the duplicate entries? Can pkgdb -Ffu or such fix that? - -- VH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAREIAAYFAkpup1cACgkQjksRtmO2spePJQCeNiTwzOsDRpPhYpHX0ARHy4+T wekAnjeNFuaXfQwOqrD6eS3YXLJKO6ma =zyfE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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