Deleted /var/db directory

Gary W. Swearingen garys at opusnet.com
Sun Jul 31 16:35:26 GMT 2005


zlatozar <zlatozar at gmail.com> writes:

> Is there a way to recover my db of all installed ports? How I can
> reinstall all my ports? Will reinstall helps?

I think your ports (eg, /usr/ports/*/*) are still installed and most
of your package files (eg, /usr/local/bin/portinstall) are too, but
your package db is gone and that is only going to be fixed by
re-installing packages again from ports or packages.

I'd probably just pretend nothing happened and do "portinstall" as
needed occasionally, otherwise I'd use my /usr/ports/distfiles/ to
help me guess what I had previously installed.


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