On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:38 PM,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> I agree with Stephen on this point.  If pkg screwed up, I wouldn't trust
> the contents of the cache.  In the situations that I've encountered, and
> bugs that I've fixed, we needed to remove the cached content and
> download from the depot to recover.
>

Ack. This is not so easy to come to terms with as a Linux admin ("Hey,
I shouldn't trust the files that were downloaded earlier, is it ?"),
but I think I'll live with this notion for sometime until I get used
to it.

> We're also very close to implementing a repair operation for pkg.  That
> should eliminate the need to do most repair actions by hand.
>

This is god to know. I'm individually going to follow this particular feature.

> -j
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