> On 13. Feb 2025, at 00:34, Michael Gmelin <gre...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > >>> 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
p.s. package database files (repo and installed packages) are in /var/db/pkg
