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Subject: Re: regenerating /var/db/pkg
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On 4/20/2010 7:11 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> I acciddentally rm'ed my /var/db/pkg and want to know is it possible to 
> rgenerate it (I have portmaster and portupgrade installed)

Portmaster certainly can't do this, it uses the information from
/var/db/pkg. I'm not sure if portupgrade can do it or not.

Your most likely course of success is to generate a list of ports that
you know you're using ("root" and "leaf" ports in portmaster
terminology), back up any config or other key files from /usr/local,
then delete everything and reinstall.


Good luck,

Doug

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