Package database problems

Paul Schmehl pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com
Thu Nov 16 19:58:57 UTC 2017


--On November 16, 2017 at 8:49:24 PM +0100 Kurt Jaeger <lists at opsec.eu> 
wrote:

> Hi!
>
>> > ???There's nothing to iterate over.  There's nothing in /var/db/pkg
>> > anymore except the SQLite databases.
>>
>> Then what is all this? (I'm only showing part of it.
>>
>>  ls /var/db/pkg/
>> FreeBSD.meta				libXfixes-5.0.3				p5-Net-Domain-TLD-1.74
>> 	py27-qt4-dbussupport-4.12_1
>> ImageMagick-6.9.2.10,1			libXfont-1.5.2,2			p5-Package-Stash-0.37_1
>
> Looks like you have some old-style pkg_xxxx leftovers.

So, what should I do? I didn't setup this server to begin with. I recall, a 
while back, instructions for switching to pkgng. Is that what wasn't done?

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