From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 18 19:35:55 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C860516A41A for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:35:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06+PM=c2fe1be6@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from turtle-out.mxes.net (turtle-out.mxes.net [216.86.168.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CD4613C480 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:35:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06+PM=c2fe1be6@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from mxout-04.mxes.net (mxout-04.mxes.net [216.86.168.179]) by turtle-in.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D2CB16438D for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:11:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com. (unknown [87.81.140.128]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 476A7D05A8 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:11:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:11:41 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071018201141.49b2493a@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <1192733493.64553.67.camel@secretariat.lanl.gov> References: <1192134379.33933.9.camel@secretariat.lanl.gov> <200710122313.59809.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <20071013011349.66164ced@gumby.homeunix.com.> <200710131705.11020.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <20071013221326.78ede247@gumby.homeunix.com.> <1192733493.64553.67.camel@secretariat.lanl.gov> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.0 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:35:55 -0000 On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:51:33 -0600 James wrote: > > It depends what state the ports were in at the time of the > > accident. If you haven't run a leaf-cutting program recently you > > may have old dependencies and tools that have become leaves - they > > may take years to show-up. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > I just discovered pkg_which. > > I'm thinking I can use this to solve my (still haven't worked on) > problem. Any ideas why this might be a bad idea? I essentially feed > it a list from /usr/ports/distfiles and move on. Do you have the database file? The default location is in the directory you deleted.