regular portsdb maintanence

[youshi10 at u.washington.edu]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Michael P. Soulier wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I just upgraded portupgrade, and it recommended that I run pkgdb -L to look
> for lost dependencies. This raised the question to me of what I should
> regularly run in cron jobs to maintain the db.
>
> Is it wise to put say, pkgdb -L into a weekly cron? Anything else?
>
> How are dependencies lost anyway? Beyond reading the source, is there a
> document that tells me how pkgdb works?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike

I can't say I've used that option lately, but I'm pretty sure that what you're experiencing occurs because stuff a) gets moved or b) gets removed. Versioned port like lib/libnet10 for instance gets replaced by lib/libnet11 in the future for instance.

You shouldn't really have to do something like this more than once a month though I would think unless you're a heavy ports user, because ports don't get moved / removed frequently (except as of late where there seems to be a bit of a ports revamp going on). So, maybe once every two weeks for now?

-Garrett