Mark Stosberg wrote:
I'll just say it plainly:
/var/db/pkg is long gone and there is no backup. It was not copied to
new a machine.
Is there is any hope of being able to use the ports or packages system in a
meangingful way again?
My sense is that some recovery is possible, but may be
There are a lot of common places the files would be installed such as
bin, sbin, lib, libexec under %%PREFIX%%. You can use `find dir -type f
| xargs -n1 -Ifoo sh -c echo -n foo:; pkg_which foo` to obtain the
list of known files (pkg_which is part of ports-mgmt/portsupgrade).
After that you can
Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote:
I'll just say it plainly:
/var/db/pkg is long gone and there is no backup. It was not copied to
new a machine.
Is there is any hope of being able to use the ports or packages system
in a
meangingful way again?
My sense is that some recovery is possible, but may
On Saturday 08 August 2009 03:02:05 b. f. wrote:
2) write a script to get the names of all files that belonged to ports
and swing through a ports tree, associating the files with ports via
the pkg-plist and PLIST_FILES variables; or
This is quite complex, time consuming and prone to error the
On 8/8/09, Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote:
On Saturday 08 August 2009 03:02:05 b. f. wrote:
2) write a script to get the names of all files that belonged to ports
and swing through a ports tree, associating the files with ports via
the pkg-plist and PLIST_FILES
Robert Huff wrote:
Unfortunately, I know of no way of rebuilding the contents of
/var/db/pkg without re-(compiling, installing) every component of every
port. If it does not exist, this would be a _killer_ ability to have;
it's not often required (one hopes!) but when it is it would be a total
You could try to recover the file from the disk if it has not been
reallocated using something like The Sleuth Kit:
http://www.sleuthkit.org/
You can use fls to find the location of the file on the disk and then
icat to recover.
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Mark Stosberg
I'll just say it plainly:
/var/db/pkg is long gone and there is no backup. It was not copied to
new a machine.
Is there is any hope of being able to use the ports or packages system in a
meangingful way again?
My sense is that some recovery is possible, but may be prohibitively expensive.
Mark Stosberg m...@summersault.com writes:
I'll just say it plainly:
/var/db/pkg is long gone and there is no backup. It was not copied to
new a machine.
Is there is any hope of being able to use the ports or packages system in a
meangingful way again?
My sense is that some recovery is
Lowell Gilbert writes:
/var/db/pkg is long gone and there is no backup. It was not copied to
new a machine.
Is there is any hope of being able to use the ports or packages
system in a meangingful way again?
You can do a forced reinstall of all your ports, and you'll end
up
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