On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 02:15:48AM -0700, Ade Lovett wrote: > > On Jun 01, 2007, at 01:33 , Kris Kennaway wrote: > >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. > > Actually, this does bring up a meta-issue that ports, pkgsrc, > portage, all suffer from. > > What happens when the metadata gets blown away (by accident, hardware > crash, flaming meteor from Mars, etc.) > > Is there anything we can do to mitigate this? > > Yes. It's an open-ended question. I also have no obvious solution. > But I do see the need for such.
I am not really sure there is a solution: unless the user has used a precompiled "standard" package is not just representing data that is cached from somewhere else and can be reconstructed, it is usually unique to a particular build. Even if they use a standard package it may have changed in the meantime. Best solution is to back up /var/db/pkg if it is in danger of deletion by a wanton admin :) Kris _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
