Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:18:55 -0400 From: Diane Bruce <db@db.net> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Diane Bruce <db@db.net>, "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>, Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>, Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com> Subject: Re: regenerating /var/db/pkg Message-ID: <20100422171855.GA24727@night.db.net> In-Reply-To: <4BD07DE5.7020801@FreeBSD.org> References: <4BCE5ECC.6070202@gmail.com> <4BCFE209.20501@FreeBSD.org> <20100422111758.GA39338@ei.bzerk.org> <o2oa0777e081004220521sae3b1b06o884fd8eadffc6931@mail.gmail.com> <20100422125402.GR33521@e.0x20.net> <i2ra0777e081004220612ka129f18aga113399ca541e6a5@mail.gmail.com> <20100422134425.GA22049@night.db.net> <4BD07DE5.7020801@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 09:48:37AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > On 4/22/2010 6:44 AM, Diane Bruce wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 04:12:08PM +0300, Eitan Adler wrote: ... > > MAILTO=... > > @weekly /usr/sbin/pkg_info -I -a > > pkg_info -o -a would probably be more useful from the standpoint of The sensible thing to do is to be putting a thumb drive on your machine and backing up the /var/db/pkg after updating. An e-mailed list of any sort would be a last resort and having it fairly compact is a compromise, since you do have the thumb drive to fall back on right? > rebuilding ports after a lost /var/db/pkg. For portmaster users > 'portmaster --list-origins' would give you a list that you could then do > 'portmaster `cat list`' to rebuild everything for you. YMMV ;-) - Diane -- - db@FreeBSD.org db@db.net http://www.db.net/~db
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