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From: Brian O'Shea <b_oshea@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: ports and /var/db/pkg
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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
> 

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