I was a dolt and killed my pkgdb

[Garrett Cooper]

Jim Stapleton wrote:
> I was building a couple of packages, figured I'd do it while at work.
> I was using portupgrade, and accidentally hit enter before typing all
> the package paths. I quickly ctrl-c'ed to exit, forgetting that that
> should not be done while pkgdb is running.
>
> Now I get this error when I try to run pkgdb:
> [root at bombadil /usr/ports]# portupgrade -N editors/xemacs
> sysutils/screen www/lynx
> [Rebuilding the pkgdb <format:bdb_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 9
> packages found (-0 +9) ......... done]
> [Gathering depends for editors/xemacs
> ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
> done]
> [Gathering depends for sysutils/screen  done]
> [Gathering depends for www/lynx .. done]
>
> It will check for dependancies for the packages I want to install, but
> it won't actually install them.
>
> I've tried:
>   pkgdb -f
>   pkgdb -af
>   mv /var/db/pkgdb/pkgdb.db ~; pkgdb -af
>
> and always end up with the same build results.
> What is the next step?
>
> Thanks,
> -Jim Stapleton
Jim,
    If you know what packages files were being modified at the time (the 
ones that live inside /var/db/pkg, but aren't pkgdb.db), you can zap the 
actual files with little consequence. Don't forget to revive the files 
though by either executing make package/package-recursive (the Makefile 
method), pkg_add, or portupgrade's method.
Cheers,
-Garrett