Warner Losh wrote:
Best solution is to back up /var/db/pkg if it is in danger of deletion
by a wanton admin :)
The ONLY data corruption that I saw when my laptop died was *ALL* of
the +CONTENTS files going away. It seems to have died during the
updating of the meta-data for the dvdauthor port. Why all the files
of unreleated packages would disapper is a mystery to me, unless
mergemaster, or one of the pkg tools, deleted them all, and then
wanted to rewrite them and I got screwed between these two steps.
I think you're thinking of portmaster, mergemaster doesn't touch ports
stuff. What portmaster does when it updates +CONTENTS files is to
update a temp copy first, then move the updated file into place after
it's done. Not sure what portupgrade does.
In terms of easily recreating them, I can't think of a way to do that
reliably other than to build the ports again. portmaster relies
heavily on the data in +CONTENTS, and it couldn't even rebuild your
ports in place without them since it wouldn't be able to find the ORIGIN.
What you could do with portmaster is to pick a high level leaf port
with a lot of dependencies (something like firefox) and do 'portmaster
-aft /usr/ports/www/firefox' (make sure you specify the directory in
/usr/ports, not the pkg directory).
hth,
Doug
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