Uggg!

[LoN]Kamikaze LoN_Kamikaze at gmx.de
Fri Jun 1 11:08:24 UTC 2007


Ade Lovett wrote:
> 
> On Jun 01, 2007, at 01:33 , Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> Download the packages from the FTP site and either reinstall them or
>> extract the +CONTENTS.  This will work best if you don't have local
>> make.conf customizations, otherwise you will see variance.
> 
> Actually, this does bring up a meta-issue that ports, pkgsrc, portage,
> all suffer from.
> 
> What happens when the metadata gets blown away (by accident, hardware
> crash, flaming meteor from Mars, etc.)
> 
> Is there anything we can do to mitigate this?
> 
> Yes.  It's an open-ended question.  I also have no obvious solution. 
> But I do see the need for such.


Talking about obvious solutions - backup and restore.


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