Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 04:33:45 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: Uggg! Message-ID: <20070601083345.GA48323@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20070601085750.ang0g5aqp0kg8c8k@webmail.leidinger.net> References: <200706010521.l515LE4N074880@harmony.bsdimp.com> <20070601085750.ang0g5aqp0kg8c8k@webmail.leidinger.net>
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On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 08:57:50AM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting Warner Losh <imp@harmony.bsdimp.com> (from Thu, 31 May 2007 > 23:21:15 -0600 (MDT)): > > >my portupgrade -a died in the middle. Well, the laptop in my battery died > > A laptop in the battery... wow, is the decharging now computer optimized? > ;-) > > >at a bad time. all of my +CONTENTS files are gone. Is there any hope? > > Hard solution: > - get your ports in /usr/ports down to the corrsponding installed version > - "make install -DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER" each > > Easy solution: > - let your ports as is > - force an install > - pray that not much files have changed > - "pkgdb -F" and let it remove the old ports for those where more > than one exists > > Collaborative solution: > - post the pkgname of each > - let people here send the +CONTENTS files to you Download the packages from the FTP site and either reinstall them or extract the +CONTENTS. This will work best if you don't have local make.conf customizations, otherwise you will see variance. Kris
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