Repair pkgng

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Wed Apr 9 19:38:41 UTC 2014


On Wed, 9 Apr 2014, Melvyn Sopacua wrote:

> Hi,
>
> So, after the detour...
>
>
>>> On 4/9/2014 12:38, Melvyn Sopacua wrote:
>
>>>> Though it makes no sense in my mind. Distfiles belong to ports not
>>>> packages. What problem was solved by moving this?
>
> This still doesn't make sense. Distfiles are of no concern to binary
> packages, so why would I continue to clutter /var/db/pkg with a large
> tree of directories that is then duplicated to /var/db/ports?

portmaster creates a file in /var/db/pkg/portnamedistfiles.  It's not a 
directory, just a list of distfiles used by the port and their 
checksums.


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