Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:13:17 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: James <jamesh@lanl.gov> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg Message-ID: <20071011211317.GA24658@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <1192136857.33933.18.camel@secretariat.lanl.gov> References: <1192134379.33933.9.camel@secretariat.lanl.gov> <470E8D3A.8010508@daleco.biz> <1192136857.33933.18.camel@secretariat.lanl.gov>
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On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 03:07:37PM -0600, James wrote: > On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 15:53 -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > > > James wrote: > > > Call it a moment of sheer stupidity, call it a misremembering, call it > > > whatever you want (and I imagine I'll hear a few different ones), but I > > > just did an rm -r /var/lib/pkg. > > > > > > Before I type anything to damage things further, does anyone have any > > > suggestions as to how to recover from this? I have other FreeBSD boxes > > > available to me, none with the same pkg list, though. I'll be reading > > > man pkgdb in the meantime.. > > > > > > I'm guessing you might be Real Tired(tm). Do you mean > > /var/db/pkg? > > > > $ ll /var/lib/pkg > > ls: /var/lib/pkg: No such file or directory > > > > Kevin Kinsey > > > > Yes, you're right. On all counts, I'm afraid. > > But, yes, ultimately. And the more I'm reading man pages, the more I'm > thinking that the only solution here will be to reinstall everything. I > was wondering if portmaster or something similar might be able to solve > this, but it looks like /var/db/pkg is what *everything* refers to. Yes, /var/db/pkg/ is where all the information about installed ports/packages is stored. To recreate that information you will have to reinstall everything. > > I'm feeling like the least competent user in the world right now. Though > it *does* teach me a valuable lesson about backing up. Backups are good, yes. Regular, up-to-date, backups are even better. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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