Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:53:14 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: jamesh@lanl.gov Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg Message-ID: <470E8D3A.8010508@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <1192134379.33933.9.camel@secretariat.lanl.gov> References: <1192134379.33933.9.camel@secretariat.lanl.gov>
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James 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.. I'm guessing you might be Real Tired(tm). Do you mean /var/db/pkg? $ ll /var/lib/pkg ls: /var/lib/pkg: No such file or directory Kevin Kinsey -- The proof of the pudding is in the eating. -- Miguel de Cervantes
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