Quoth Freddie Cash <fjwc...@gmail.com>: > On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Jim Ballantine <j.ballant...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > My /var/db/pkg has become corrupt, and I can't find an archive of it to > > install in it's place. Does one exist and if so where? If not any ideas > > on > > how to rebuild the db? > > Are you using PKGng or the old pkg_* tools? > > Meaning, is your data stored as individual files under > /var/db/pkg/PORTNAME/*, or as a single sqlite database under /var/db/pkg? > > If using PKGng, there's a backup copy under /var/db/backup* > > If using the older pkg_* tools, you're screwed. :)
With either package system /etc/periodic/daily/220.backup-pkgdb backs up the whole of /var/db/pkg into /var/backups/pkgdb.bak.tbz*. With pkgng /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily/411.pkg-backup also backs up the pkgng db into /var/backups/pkgng.db; probably this means 220.backup-pkgdb should be turned off, but this doesn't happen by default. Ben _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
