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Date:      Mon, 13 Mar 2006 01:20:18 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        David J Brooks <daeg@houston.rr.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /var/db/pkg is empty!
Message-ID:  <20060313062016.GA58379@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200603122133.47804.daeg@houston.rr.com>
References:  <17428.48090.416936.142264@roam.psg.com> <200603122035.10272.donaldjoneill@gmail.com> <17428.56461.451976.293083@roam.psg.com> <200603122133.47804.daeg@houston.rr.com>

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On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 09:33:47PM -0600, David J Brooks wrote:
> I'm not sure how it happened, but my /var partition was scrambled pretty=
=20
> badly, and now my /var/dbpkg and /var/db/ports directories are empty... w=
hich=20
> causes portversion and portugrade to produce the following messages:
>=20
> > portversion
> ** No matching installed package: *
>=20
> >portupgrade -a
> ** No such installed package: *
>=20
> Is there a way to rebuild the ports database so that these will work prop=
erly?

No, that was the only copy.

Kris

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