Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:49:32 -0400 From: Diane Bruce <db@db.net> To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: regenerating /var/db/pkg Message-ID: <20100422124932.GA21661@night.db.net> In-Reply-To: <4BCE5ECC.6070202@gmail.com> References: <4BCE5ECC.6070202@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:11:24PM -0400, 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) You would have to write a script which went through each file in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib (mostly sufficient) and examined every single pkg-plist looking for the corresponding file. Then you know what port the file was generated by. Needless to say, this would be somewhat horrible. - Diane -- - db@FreeBSD.org db@db.net http://www.db.net/~db
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