From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 25 22:57:45 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08D3F16ADA4 for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 22:56:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rar102@ra.msstate.edu) Received: from Ra.MsState.Edu (Ra.msstate.edu [130.18.80.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82B9B43D46 for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 22:56:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rar102@ra.msstate.edu) Received: from ws168-55.hilbun.dynamic.msstate.edu (ws168-55.hilbun.dynamic.msstate.edu [130.18.55.168]); by Ra.MsState.Edu (8.13.6/8.12.8/ra_1.2) with SMTP; id k4PMuC4X008497 for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 17:56:21 -0500 (CDT) From: "Robertsen A. Riehle" Organization: Dept. of Physics & Astronomy To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 17:55:55 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200605251755.55461.rar102@ra.msstate.edu> Subject: Rebuilding /var/db/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, 25 May 2006 22:57:53 -0000 Say that the /var/db/pkg directory had been recursively erased off of a workstation that had ~300 packages on it. And, let's hypothetically say that this workstation's ports tree was up to date as of yesterday. Is there any hope of rectifying this or is this workstation is a static ports state forever??? wab