Re: screwed up pkg_add

From: Gary (heyyo_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/20/05 

Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 23:21:15 +0800

never been so unlucky in these 4 years... lol

Not sure if it will help, but I suppose I will back-up the whole /var/db/pkg
from now on
before adding some new packages. (of coz after fixing the whole thing
first... *_*)

Gary.

> Nice ***-up.
>
> I'm afraid you /var/db/pkg is totally garbled by this point. Your best
> bet is to wipe it out, wipe /usr/local as well, and start anew.
>
> The `panic n hang' scenario is about the only case in which you may end up
> with this kind of issues.
>
> There are no self-repair capabilities in pkg_add to deal with this yet,
> sorry.

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