Post details: PortsDB


My adventures and exploits as well as the gnashing of teeth with the wonderful OS known as FreeBSD.

PortsDB

January 29th, 2008 (94 views )

The majority of this weekend was spent tending a portupgrade. I managed to break the portsdb. I am positive this was related to running out of diskspace during the process. However FreeBSD makes it easy to solve this by removing the INDEX-#.db file in /usr/ports and using the pkgdb and portsdb commands to rebuild the database and handling the dependancies. However the process did take some time...

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