Subject: Re: broken package database?
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Frank Knappe <knappe@tu-harburg.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/13/2002 10:17:51
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> OK, 2 more idea.
> 1) try to ktrace the failing command, to try to see which file is corrupt.
>   ktrace -i make install 
>   This will generate a large trace file, though, including the infos for
>   make and all its childrens.

Large is a nice description for 770MB file :-)


> 2) maybe it's just /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.byfile.db which is corrupt. Remove
>    it and rebuild: pkg_admin rebuild

That's followed by a make clean-depends worked.

Thanks.


Ciao , Frank .