On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 00:46:55 -0400 Bob Bernstein <poo...@ruptured-duck.com> wrote:
> My spidey-sense is warning me that my pkg collection is seriously > corrupt, and that I ought to give equally serious consideration to > beginning over again, with a fresh install of -current. > > Buy, sell, or hold? > > Thank you, What exactly are you attempting to do? If you want to get pkgsrc going but you have some corruption issues??, just remove manually all your existing packages, i.e. rm -rf /usr/pkg rm -rf /var/db/pkg and start from scratch. It's as simple as that. But then I don't know how and where you install your packages. If you build them yourself from source, then you should know exactly where they are located. If you install binary packages from NetBSD public locations, then all packages and database live in the well known locations. >From your previous email, it seems you're building from source, but I can't tell if only one package install gives you errors, or if this happens for other packages as well. Have you tried running "pkg_info -a"? and looking for the package name? If you're not building and installing packages in a chroot, then you will be overwriting previously installed packages and possibly causing conflicts. Is this what may be happening here?
