Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 14:58:43 -0800 (PST) From: Brian O'Shea <b_oshea@yahoo.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports and /var/db/pkg Message-ID: <20030402225843.14209.qmail@web10508.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030402211150.GA10348@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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Danny, If you built your packages from ports, you could always reinstall them. You just have to check for /usr/ports/<group>/<port>/work/.install_done.* It's not perfect, but you could use it to generate a quick list of ports to selectively re-install. Good luck, -brian --- Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 06:18:24PM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote: > > hi all, > > is there some 'easy' way to resync /var/db/pkg from /usr/local > > (after some rm's on it?), i guess i could write a script to would try and > > match the info in /var/db/pkg, and if it's not where it's supposed to be > > would remove the info, but if there is a command ... > > Not really..you can go the other way though; see the example in > pkg_which(1). > > Kris > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com
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