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Subject: Rebuilding /var/db/pkg
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Robertsen A. Riehle writes:

>  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???

	1) Is there no back-up?
	2) Unless you clear it regularly, look in
/usr/ports/distfiles.  On my system, I'd also check pkgtools.conf.
Start with things with a lot of dependencies (OpenOffice, Mozilla,
KDE/gnome, Java, Emacs, etc.) and reinstall by hand.  


				Robert Huff