removing pkgdb.db, and re-generate it

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 03:55:41PM +0100, Christer Solskogen wrote:
> Just for the kicks of it I tried removing
> /var/db/pkgdb.db, and re-generate it by running pkgdb.
> 
> The funny thing is that the file is taking lesser space.
> (from 4.6M to 3.9M) - not that it is much, but still why?

Maybe the database gets fragmented over time from entries being
removed, or maybe it's using a different file format.

Kris


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