> On 13. Feb 2025, at 00:29, Kevin Oberman <rkober...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > In my upgrade of pkg this morning, I shot myself in the foot. I inadvertently > killed the update while it was installing the new version, leaving my pkg > database all messed up, or at least the entry for pkg is. I have a clean > backup of pkg.sql.xz, but I can't figure out how to restore it. > > Any pkg command gets: > The package management tool is not yet installed on your system. > Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]: > but trying to do so gets: the most recent version of pkg-2.0.5 is already > installed > > Any idea of what I can do to get a working pkg? I'd like to just blow away > the current database and then bootstrap pkg. I'm just not sure of what to > delete. I know there is a sqlite db somewhere. I've rummaged around in it in > hte past, but it's been years and I can't seem to find it. > > Any clue as to how to get pkg reinstalled would be much appreciated.
Does this help? https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=269810#c4 -m
