From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 25 23:16:35 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 AA5F316AE23 for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 23:16:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFE2243D53 for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 23:16:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE3F01A4EE7; Thu, 25 May 2006 16:16:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 51C9E51406; Thu, 25 May 2006 19:16:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 19:16:33 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: "Robertsen A. Riehle" Message-ID: <20060525231633.GA33373@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200605251755.55461.rar102@ra.msstate.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200605251755.55461.rar102@ra.msstate.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 23:16:36 -0000 --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--