Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:35:36 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: regenerating /var/db/pkg Message-ID: <19409.45112.41736.174681@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <4BCE5ECC.6070202@gmail.com> References: <4BCE5ECC.6070202@gmail.com>
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Aryeh M. Friedman writes: > I acciddentally rm'ed my /var/db/pkg and want to know is it > possible to rgenerate it (I have portmaster and portupgrade > installed) (I'm assuming you have _completely_ deleted the contents of /var/db/pkg.) If you have not deleted /usr/ports/distfiles, this will give you a starting place. Mind you, some of the distfile names bear scant relation to the port names ... but they're usually not that hard to track down. The advice to "start with a big one" - OpenOffice, KDE, etc. - is also sound. Robert Huff (who used this method successfully a couple of years ago)
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