Subject: Re: corrupted pkg database
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/07/2003 11:18:28
Lubos Vrbka <shnek@chemi.muni.cz> wrote:
 
> snail# make update
> ===> Deinstalling for fluxbox-0.1.14
> Running PKG_DBDIR=/var/db/pkg /usr/sbin/pkg_delete -r fluxbox-0.1.8
> pkg_delete: cannot open pkgdb: No such file or directory
[...]
> ===> [Automatic ELF shared object handling]
> pkg_delete: cannot open /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.byfile.db: Undefined error: 0
> *** Error code 1

Could you do the following, please:

cd /usr/pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install
cvs update -dP
make install

and try again?

(Make sure you get rev 1.3 of pkg_install/files/admin/main.c)

-Jan
 

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