From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 19 19:05:43 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 DF90916A41F for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:05:43 +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 8CBC643D48 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:05:43 +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 19:05:43 +0000 Received: from home.sigd.net by owa.mailstreet2003.net; 19 Jul 2005 14:04:54 -0500 From: Chris Haulmark To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <1121799124.10011.2.camel@localhost> References: <1121799124.10011.2.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:04:54 -0500 Message-Id: <1121799894.10011.7.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Subject: Re: /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 19:05:44 -0000 On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 13:52 -0500, Chris Haulmark wrote: > 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 > An update. I am playing around with using portsdb -rR pkg_name. What I installed is a major package like gnome and it listed several other packages that can be reinstalled with portupgrade -f. I am still open for any suggestions to rebuild the package database without having to recompile or pkg_add everything. Chris > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"