Re: Broken system after "pkgin full-upgrade"

[Brett Lymn <blymn%internode.on.net@localhost>]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 10:25:52PM +0100, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> 
> Eventually pkgin also upgrade pkgin itself and that's where I think
> something went wrong.
> 
> I checked into /var/db/pkgin/pkg_install-err.log but there were no
> recent errors.
> 
> Many packages can't be launched because of missing dependencies.
> 

These says I usually build my packages in a chrooted environment and use
a meta-pkg that contains all the stuff I normally want installed.  Once
that completes successfully I shift aside /usr/pkg and /var/db/pkg then
copy the ones from the chroot into the correct location.  Much safer and
easier.

> 
> Can pkgsrc be reset back to a clean state in any way?
> 

move aside /usr/pkg and /var/db/pkg.  That should give you a clean
slate.

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Brett Lymn
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