On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:17:20 +0000 (UTC) jb wrote: > William Orr <will <at> worrbase.com> writes: > > > > > Hello, > > > > I had a hard disk failure some time ago, and I ended up losing > > /var/db/pkg/ and everything under it (before you say I should've > > been backing it up, I know, I was actually doing an initial full > > when this happened). Is there a way I can restore it, or at least > > manually add entries I know for sure about? > > forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=6466 > "The application themselves are still installed and will keep > functioning, you just removed the records of their installation. When > you later install newer versions, you may have to use a force flag to > overwrite files (the port thinks it is uninstalled after all). The > new port installations will get recorded in /var/db/pkg again.'
I wouldn't do that, it's not as simple as that post suggests. It's likely to lead to a lot of files being orphaned, which may lead to build or runtime errors in the future, or vulnerabilities that portaudit can't detect. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
