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Date:      Wed, 3 May 2006 10:18:22 -0400
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   how get "/var/db/pkg"?
Message-ID:  <17496.48046.574945.900645@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
In-Reply-To: <ecbcb8050605022205t306f7b8bi4470dac95edbf488@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <ecbcb8050605022205t306f7b8bi4470dac95edbf488@mail.gmail.com>

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xiang writes:

>  Today,i run "pkgdb -F",but get a error message:"you do not own
>  /var/db/pkg",becouse i had delete /var/db/pkg by oversight just
>  the other day.
>
>  how can i do now?

	If you have deleted all contents of /var/db/pkg, and you don't
have a backup, you're screwed.  You'll have to reinstall every to
rebuild the db.
	If, however, you just deleted pkgdb.db then "pkgdb -U" will
repopulate it.


				Robert Huff




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