Repair pkgng
Adam McDougall
mcdouga9 at egr.msu.edu
Wed Apr 9 13:17:39 UTC 2014
On 04/09/2014 06:58, John Marino wrote:
> On 4/9/2014 12:38, Melvyn Sopacua wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, 8 Apr 2014, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>>
>>>>> /var/db/pkg/libyaml-0.1.6/distfiles
>> ...
>>>
>>> No, once you run pkgng, these files are in /var/db/pkg. The only files in
>>> /var/db/ports are options files.
>>
>> Ah, my bad.
>> Though it makes no sense in my mind. Distfiles belong to ports not
>> packages. What problem was solved by moving this?
>>
>
> It did not "move".
> A clean /var/db/pkg has these contents (or similar):
> auditfile
> local.sqlite
> repo-FreeBSD.sqlite
> vuln.xml
>
> A clean /var/db/ports directory has these contents
> */options
>
>
> That's it. No distfiles.
>
> John
I believe I've heard /var/db/pkg/something/distfiles is a dropping
specifically from portmaster. Doesn't matter if pkgng or not.
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