I was a dolt and killed my pkgdb
I was building a couple of packages, figured I'd do it while at work. I was using portupgrade, and accidentally hit enter before typing all the package paths. I quickly ctrl-c'ed to exit, forgetting that that should not be done while pkgdb is running. Now I get this error when I try to run pkgdb: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports]# portupgrade -N editors/xemacs sysutils/screen www/lynx [Rebuilding the pkgdb format:bdb_btree in /var/db/pkg ... - 9 packages found (-0 +9) . done] [Gathering depends for editors/xemacs done] [Gathering depends for sysutils/screen done] [Gathering depends for www/lynx .. done] It will check for dependancies for the packages I want to install, but it won't actually install them. I've tried: pkgdb -f pkgdb -af mv /var/db/pkgdb/pkgdb.db ~; pkgdb -af and always end up with the same build results. What is the next step? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I was a dolt and killed my pkgdb
Jim Stapleton wrote: I was building a couple of packages, figured I'd do it while at work. I was using portupgrade, and accidentally hit enter before typing all the package paths. I quickly ctrl-c'ed to exit, forgetting that that should not be done while pkgdb is running. Now I get this error when I try to run pkgdb: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports]# portupgrade -N editors/xemacs sysutils/screen www/lynx [Rebuilding the pkgdb format:bdb_btree in /var/db/pkg ... - 9 packages found (-0 +9) . done] [Gathering depends for editors/xemacs done] [Gathering depends for sysutils/screen done] [Gathering depends for www/lynx .. done] It will check for dependancies for the packages I want to install, but it won't actually install them. I've tried: pkgdb -f pkgdb -af mv /var/db/pkgdb/pkgdb.db ~; pkgdb -af and always end up with the same build results. What is the next step? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton Jim, If you know what packages files were being modified at the time (the ones that live inside /var/db/pkg, but aren't pkgdb.db), you can zap the actual files with little consequence. Don't forget to revive the files though by either executing make package/package-recursive (the Makefile method), pkg_add, or portupgrade's method. Cheers, -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I was a dolt and killed my pkgdb
Thanks - I moved the contents of /var/db/pkgdb to ~/pkg/, and then tried to build one of the packages. That gave me a different error, and a useful one. I went and ran portdb (not to be mistaken for pkgdb), in download-index mode. I copied the ~/pkg/ back to /var/db/pkgdb/, and the problem was fixed. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 8/29/07, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: I was building a couple of packages, figured I'd do it while at work. I was using portupgrade, and accidentally hit enter before typing all the package paths. I quickly ctrl-c'ed to exit, forgetting that that should not be done while pkgdb is running. Now I get this error when I try to run pkgdb: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports]# portupgrade -N editors/xemacs sysutils/screen www/lynx [Rebuilding the pkgdb format:bdb_btree in /var/db/pkg ... - 9 packages found (-0 +9) . done] [Gathering depends for editors/xemacs done] [Gathering depends for sysutils/screen done] [Gathering depends for www/lynx .. done] It will check for dependancies for the packages I want to install, but it won't actually install them. I've tried: pkgdb -f pkgdb -af mv /var/db/pkgdb/pkgdb.db ~; pkgdb -af and always end up with the same build results. What is the next step? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton Jim, If you know what packages files were being modified at the time (the ones that live inside /var/db/pkg, but aren't pkgdb.db), you can zap the actual files with little consequence. Don't forget to revive the files though by either executing make package/package-recursive (the Makefile method), pkg_add, or portupgrade's method. Cheers, -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
