Packages Corrupted

[Abu Khaled]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 06:55:22 +0200, KP <newbie at freebsdblog.org> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01 at gmail.com>
> To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 6:42 AM
> Subject: Re: Packages Corrupted
> 
> > On Wednesday 30 March 2005 08:27 pm, KP wrote:
> > > I installed apache, php and mysql with pkg_add, unfortunately I
> > > messed up the directory /var/db during moving and linking. Now when I
> > > pkg_delete or pkg_add any php related packages, always got the error
> > > message: "the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt", tried
> > > "pkgdb -F" and it didn't work. This is a new server running 5.3
> > > release, just installed serveral packages, but with the error
> > > message, I feel the system totally corrupted. Is it possible to fix
> > > this? Many thanks in advance!
> > > Kevin
> >
> > If /var/db is "messed up" there is no way to know which installed
> > package is associated with which port.  If you don't see any package
> > names listed under /var/db/pkg they are as good as not being installed
> > as far as the ports system is concerned. You should never fool with
> > anything under /var/db/pkg, always leave that to the ports system to
> > handle. What is the status of  /var/db/pkg now? Are there any package
> > names listed in it?
> >
> > -Mike
> 
> Thanks for your reply, Mike.
> /var/db/pkg looks good
> # ls
> apache-1.3.33           mysql-client-4.0.21     php4-pcre-4.3.9
> pkgdb.db
> bison-1.75_2            perl-5.8.5              php4-posix-4.3.9
> portupgrade-20041226_1
> cvsup-without-gui-16.1h php4-bz2-4.3.9          php4-session-4.3.9
> ruby-1.8.2_3
> expat-1.95.8            php4-ctype-4.3.9        php4-tokenizer-4.3.9
> ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2
> gettext-0.13.1_1        php4-extensions-1.0     php4-xml-4.3.9
> unixbench-4.1.0
> libiconv-1.9.2_1        php4-mysql-4.3.9        php4-zlib-4.3.9
> m4-1.4.1                php4-overload-4.3.9     pkg
> 
> But If I try to delete a package, it will go to the error message in the
> end.
> 
> # pkg_delete php4-xml-4.3.9
> pkg_delete: package 'php4-xml-4.3.9' is required by these other packages and
> may not be deinstalled: php4-extensions-1.0
> 
> # pkg_delete php4-extensions-1.0
> pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> pkg_delete: the package info for package 'pkg' is corrupt
> 
> 
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Is pkg in /var/db/pkg/ a file or directory how did it end up there.

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Kind regards
Abu Khaled