On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 05:30:01PM -0700, Vizion wrote: > On Monday 06 June 2005 15:32, the author Kris Kennaway contributed to the > dialogue on- > Re: pkgdb problem: > > >On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 02:14:16PM -0700, Vizion wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> I managed to get my pkgdb entirely screwed up - and there is now no > >> database. > >> > >> I tried pkgdb -fu > >> And was told there were 0 pkgs! > >> > >> How do I rebuild from scratch? > > > >If you accidentally delete your /var/db/pkg directory then the only > >way to recover it is to restore from backup. > > Ooooooooooooooh dear > are there no recovery scripts - I lost my var partition - and the back up was > overwritten by a blank db!!
No, the information is only stored within that directory. > I have a file listing of all the packages installed on the system - an output > from pkg_info. > Do you happen to know if there is any way I can at least get that into the > pkgdb? Feed it to portinstall to reinstall all of the ports. Kris
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