From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 19 18:52:54 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE4D116A41F for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 18:52:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@sigd.net) Received: from ms05.mailstreet2003.net (MS05.mailstreet2003.net [63.251.155.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 625CA43D46 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 18:52:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@sigd.net) Received: from 216.253.190.66 ([216.253.190.66]) by ms05.mailstreet2003.net ([10.0.25.5]) via Exchange Front-End Server owa.mailstreet2003.net ([10.0.49.50]) with Microsoft Exchange Server HTTP-DAV ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 18:52:53 +0000 Received: from home.sigd.net by owa.mailstreet2003.net; 19 Jul 2005 13:52:04 -0500 From: Chris Haulmark To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:52:04 -0500 Message-Id: <1121799124.10011.2.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Subject: /var/db/pkg deleted..what to do? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: chris@sigd.net List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 18:52:54 -0000 What is the best suggestion to a friend who runs a FreeBSD workstation. He tried to delete mysql completely but deleted /var/db instead of /var/db/mysql He has dozens of packages installed from the ports. He mainly uses gnome2 and several other major applications...it would be a pain to reinstall everything while he is depending on his memory of what he had installed in the first place. Chris