Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:14:45 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg Message-ID: <18190.41045.40653.528498@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <1192138145.33933.21.camel@secretariat.lanl.gov> References: <1192134379.33933.9.camel@secretariat.lanl.gov> <470E8D3A.8010508@daleco.biz> <1192136857.33933.18.camel@secretariat.lanl.gov> <20071011211317.GA24658@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <1192138145.33933.21.camel@secretariat.lanl.gov>
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James writes: > What has happened, though, is I've never ran rm in > /usr/ports/distfiles. I'm going to think for a little bit about > a script that can move through /usr/ports/distfiles and reinstall > everything that exists there. Having been in almost the identical situation for different rasons, I sympathize. Yes, this will involve a sweep through /usr/ports distfiles. If you haven't ever deleted anything, I suggest a prelimiary manual run deleting everything but the most recent version. This has a down-side, but it will prevent cluttering the rebuilt system with unused ports. The other thing you want do is start with something /big/ - OpenOffice, FireFox, GIMP, Java, Apache. While rebuilding it will take time (possibly days) it will automatically suck in the dependencies. Send the output of the rebuild to a file; have a cron job e-mail you the last 50 lines every hour. Robert Huff
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