From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 13 00:42:34 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3212116A417 for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:42:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06+PH=69e892a4@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from turtle-out.mxes.net (turtle-out.mxes.net [216.86.168.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C3A913C45D for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:42:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06+PH=69e892a4@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from mxout-04.mxes.net (mxout-04.mxes.net [216.86.168.179]) by turtle-in.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23975163F8C for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:13:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com. (unknown [87.81.140.128]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE2CAD05A0 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:13:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:13:49 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071013011349.66164ced@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <200710122313.59809.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> References: <1192134379.33933.9.camel@secretariat.lanl.gov> <20071012211941.29038bc2@gumby.homeunix.com.> <200710122313.59809.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.0 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/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: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:42:34 -0000 On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:13:58 +0200 Mel wrote: > On Friday 12 October 2007 22:19:41 RW wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:26:19 -0600 > > > > James wrote: > > > Call it a moment of sheer stupidity, call it a misremembering, > > > call it whatever you want (and I imagine I'll hear a few > > > different ones), but I just did an rm -r /var/lib/pkg. > > > > > > Before I type anything to damage things further, does anyone have > > > any suggestions as to how to recover from this? I have other > > > FreeBSD boxes available to me, none with the same pkg list, > > > though. I'll be reading man pkgdb in the meantime.. > > > > This came up recently in another thread, and what seemed to be the > > best solution to me, was this: > > > > 1. work out which leaf-ports you actually need - don't worry about > > the dependencies. > > > > 2. at your leisure build new packages under a chroot environment, > > or on another machine. > > > > 3. back-up /usr/local/etc (or the whole of /usr/local) > > > > 4. rm -rf /usr/local/* > > > > 5. Restore /usr/local/etc and install packages. > > Why would you go through 3-5 when you can just > mv /chroot/build/directory/var/db/pkg /var/db/pkg ? For the reasons that that you snipped off the bottom of my post. > > ... avoids leaving any orphaned files,and most > > importantly makes sure that all of the installed package have an > > entry in /var/db/pkg. If you miss any of these entries, it may > > cause a lot of trouble down the line. /chroot/build/directory/var/db/pkg is only a rough guess as to what was actually installed under /usr/local/. Maybe some forgotten dependency doesn't get included in the new build. A year from now you may find odd build problems, or new port installs may use orphaned files with critical vulnerabilities that portaudit can't detect.