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Date:      Mon, 6 Jun 2005 18:32:06 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Vizion <vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pkgdb problem
Message-ID:  <20050606223206.GA84164@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200506061414.16870.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com>
References:  <200506061414.16870.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com>

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On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 02:14:16PM -0700, Vizion wrote:
> Hi
>=20
> I managed  to get my pkgdb entirely screwed up - and there is now no data=
base.
>=20
> I tried pkgdb -fu
> And was told there were 0 pkgs!
>=20
> How do I rebuild from scratch?

If you accidentally delete your /var/db/pkg directory then the only
way to recover it is to restore from backup.

Kris

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