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

[Achilleus Mantzios]

O Jack Raats έγραψε στις Jun 5, 2006 :

> Did you actually try these commands?
> You wrote that it went wrong during a portupgrade.
> At that moment you are using distfiles and workspace!
> 
> So did you give it a try???

Definately i did, although it was apparent that those commands
could not fix the missing +CONTENTS file problem.

> 
> Jack
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Achilleus Mantzios" <achill at matrix.gatewaynet.com>
> To: "Jack Raats" <jack at raats.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 4:26 PM
> Subject: Re: package corrupt/whats the "official" way of dealing with?
> 
> 
> O Jack Raats έγραψε στις Jun 5, 2006 :
> 
> > The below commands will look at your packages files and compare the
> > checksums to find a corrupted file.
> > It also will clean the ports/package directories from crap.
> > It will NOT destroy any installed packages or port unless it's corrupted.
> > It's very safe to use these commands.
> >
> > You'll need to have root priveleges to run these commands of course
> 
> These commands have nothing to do with my problem.
> 
> -C cleans work dirs
> -D(D) distfiles
> -P(P) package tarballs
> ./distclean.sh cleans distfiles too
> 
> Any one else has any ideas?
> 
> >
> > JAck
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Achilleus Mantzios" <achill at matrix.gatewaynet.com>
> > To: "Jack Raats" <jack at raats.org>
> > Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 10:48 AM
> > Subject: Re: package corrupt/whats the "official" way of dealing with?
> >
> >
> > O Jack Raats έγραψε στις Jun 5, 2006 :
> >
> > > I once had a simular problem.
> > > I solved it using the following commands after each other
> > >
> > > portsclean -C
> > > portsclean -D
> > > portsclean -DD
> > > portsclean -P
> > > portsclean -PP
> > > cd /usr/ports/Tools/scripts
> > > ./distclean.sh -f
> > >
> > > SUccess!
> >
> > My problem post probably lies in the erroneous absence
> > of +CONTENTS file in the problematic /var/db/pkg/<pkg name>/
> > dirs.
> >
> > Does any of the above commands you used affects/rebuilds those +CONTENTS
> > files?
> >
> > >
> > > Jack Raats
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > From: "Achilleus Mantzios" <achill at matrix.gatewaynet.com>
> > > To: <freebsd-ports at freebsd.org>
> > > Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 10:20 AM
> > > Subject: package corrupt/whats the "official" way of dealing with?
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > 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
> > > > pkg_info: the package info for package 'arts-1.4.2,1' is corrupt
> > > > pkg_info: the package info for package 'at-spi-1.6.4' is corrupt
> > > > pkg_info: the package info for package 'bitstream-vera-1.10_1' is
> > > > corrupt
> > > > pkg_info: the package info for package 'bugbuddy-2.10.0_1' is corrupt
> > > > pkg_info: the package info for package 'cairo-0.4.0' is corrupt
> > > > pkg_info: the package info for package 'cvsup-16.1h_2' is corrupt
> > > > pkg_info: the package info for package 'dasher-3.2.15' is corrupt
> > > > pkg_info: the package info for package 'dri-6.2.1,2' is corrupt
> > > > pkg_info: the package info for package 'eclipse-3.1' is corrupt
> > > > pkg_info: the package info for package 'eel-2.10.1_1' is corrupt
> > > > pkg_info: the package info for package 'el-kde-i18n-3.4.2' is corrupt
> > > > pkg_info: the package info for package 'el-openoffice-1.1.5.rc2' is
> > > > corrupt
> > > > pkg_info: the package info for package 'eog-2.10.2' 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.
> > > >
> > > > -- 
> > > > -Achilleus
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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> 
> 

-- 
-Achilleus