regenerating /var/db/pkg

[Diane Bruce]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:11:24PM -0400, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> I acciddentally rm'ed my /var/db/pkg and want to know is it possible to 
> rgenerate it (I have portmaster and portupgrade installed)


You would have to write a script which went through each file in
/usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib (mostly sufficient) and examined
every single pkg-plist looking for the corresponding file. Then you
know what port the file was generated by. Needless to say, this would
be somewhat horrible. 

- Diane
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