Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:13:58 +0200 From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg Message-ID: <200710122313.59809.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <20071012211941.29038bc2@gumby.homeunix.com.> References: <1192134379.33933.9.camel@secretariat.lanl.gov> <20071012211941.29038bc2@gumby.homeunix.com.>
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On Friday 12 October 2007 22:19:41 RW wrote: > On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:26:19 -0600 > > James <jamesh@lanl.gov> wrote: > > Call it a moment of sheer stupidity, call it a misremembering, call it > > whatever you want (and I imagine I'll hear a few different ones), but > > I just did an rm -r /var/lib/pkg. > > > > Before I type anything to damage things further, does anyone have any > > suggestions as to how to recover from this? I have other FreeBSD boxes > > available to me, none with the same pkg list, though. I'll be reading > > man pkgdb in the meantime.. > > This came up recently in another thread, and what seemed to be the best > solution to me, was this: > > 1. work out which leaf-ports you actually need - don't worry about the > dependencies. > > 2. at your leisure build new packages under a chroot environment, or on > another machine. > > 3. back-up /usr/local/etc (or the whole of /usr/local) > > 4. rm -rf /usr/local/* > > 5. Restore /usr/local/etc and install packages. Why would you go through 3-5 when you can just mv /chroot/build/directory/var/db/pkg /var/db/pkg ? -- Mel
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