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Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: 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.
Yea, forget I said mergemaster. It was portupgrade.
: 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.
rm -rf /var/db/pkg/* /usr/local/* /usr/X11R6/*
is somewhat liberating... That's what I opted for...
However, I've not yet tried to rebuild openoffice. Firefox and X11
worked.
[[ as an aside, the updating instructions for xorg should say you may
need to regenerate your config file, since when I used my old one
I got pcidata not found ]]
: 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).
I don't see the 't' option listed in the portupgrade -help output.
What does it do?
Warner
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