/var/db/pkg is empty!

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Mon Mar 13 06:20:40 UTC 2006


On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 09:33:47PM -0600, David J Brooks wrote:
> I'm not sure how it happened, but my /var partition was scrambled pretty 
> badly, and now my /var/dbpkg and /var/db/ports directories are empty... which 
> causes portversion and portugrade to produce the following messages:
> 
> > portversion
> ** No matching installed package: *
> 
> >portupgrade -a
> ** No such installed package: *
> 
> Is there a way to rebuild the ports database so that these will work properly?

No, that was the only copy.

Kris
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