pkdgb and corrupted record(s)

[Adam Vande More]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

>
> I'd never seen it with portupgrade, either.  Don't know the cause, but it
> can be a problem.  portmaster --check-depends might fix it.  A more
> brute-force way is to figure out which are the problems with
> find /var/db/pkg -name "+CONTENTS" -exec egrep -B1 -H 'pkgdep $' {} \;
> Then rebuild all of them by feeding the list to portmaster, which will sort
> them and rebuild in the right order to fix it.


If I remember correctly, this can be caused by Ctrl-C out of a portmaster
run early, or perhaps some other abnormal termination.  IIRC, some
improvements have been done for this problem as it's been quite awhile since
I've seen it personally, but your mileage may vary.

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Adam Vande More