Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 19:16:33 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "Robertsen A. Riehle" <rar102@ra.msstate.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rebuilding /var/db/pkg Message-ID: <20060525231633.GA33373@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200605251755.55461.rar102@ra.msstate.edu> References: <200605251755.55461.rar102@ra.msstate.edu>
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--rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 05:55:55PM -0500, Robertsen A. Riehle wrote: > Say that the /var/db/pkg directory had been recursively erased off of a= =20 > workstation that had ~300 packages on it. And, let's hypothetically say= =20 > that this workstation's ports tree was up to date as of yesterday. Is th= ere=20 > any hope of rectifying this or is this workstation is a static ports stat= e=20 > forever??? There is not (unless you go through by hand and figure out what was installed), this is why backups are necessary. Kris --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEdjrQWry0BWjoQKURAt0eAJ4m1CY6DENHwvY1TSfPUMhnJGdpXQCg5NM/ 09uFep7+tszam/8Ou6Cca/s= =6Qzl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ--
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