Robert T Wyatt wrote:
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What's /sw/var/db supposed to be like?
$ ls -alF /sw/var/db
total 176
drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 102 24 Jan 23:11 ./
drwxr-xr-x 28 root admin 952 25 Feb 00:19 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 88942 24 Jan 23:09 finkapt.db
There should be the main fink database, some 20 megabytes long.
Usually it is called "fink.db" (see also "man fink"), and it is updated
whenever you run "fink index" or "fink selfupdate" or some such command,
except when you have the apt-ftparchive package installed. Then it is
called "apt-ftparchive.db" and it is updated at each full moon or
something like that.
Don't ask me about it; I have never understood this database stuff. I
have no idea who writes there, fink, apt, or dpkg, and when and where
and why (or why not in your case). Maybe we should petition fink-core to
document some of it?
The "finkapt.db" was something that existed for a while in November 2004
when the --use-binary-dist stuff was first introduced. Why it is there
in your case, and almost contemporary, I have no idea. Do you have an
old fink version from cvs installed, perhaps? What version of fink do
you have, in fact?
Then there are, depending on your fink version, also a couple of *.db
files in /sw/var/lib/fink. And of course apt and dpkg have their own
databases which could be missing or corrupt in your case.
--
Martin
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