package corrupt/whats the "official" way of dealing with?

[Doug Barton]

Achilleus Mantzios wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> during a 6.0-BETA1 to 6.1-RELEASE-p1 upgrade cycle 
> and a subsequent
> portupgrade -PRr '*',
> (and most probably while doing the nvidia port),
> my system crashed and it left the /var/db/pkg system
> in a corrupted condition:
> 
> pkg_info: the package info for package 'apache-ant-1.6.5' is corrupt

...

> None of the popular -f -u etc... pkgdb switches seem to remedy the 
> problem.
> 
> What should i do?
> 
> I am thinking of deleting the above dirs and installing those packages
> again.

Well, for cvsup you can just pkg_delete it and then do pkg_add -r cvsup. For
the rest, I saw this problem when I was developing portmaster when the files
in the /var/db/pkg/ directories did not have the right permissions. You can
try doing:

find /var/db/pkg/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

and see if that fixes it for you. If not, you are probably correct that you
will have to reinstall the ports/packages to fix it. If you're using ports,
and want to give portmaster a try, it will rebuild your dependency
information for you, assuming that there is any valid data in the pkg
directories to start with.

Hope that helps,

Doug

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