how get "/var/db/pkg"?

[Tom Grove]

Robert Huff wrote:

>xiang writes:
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>> Today,i run "pkgdb -F",but get a error message:"you do not own
>> /var/db/pkg",becouse i had delete /var/db/pkg by oversight just
>> the other day.
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>> how can i do now?
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>	If you have deleted all contents of /var/db/pkg, and you don't
>have a backup, you're screwed.  You'll have to reinstall every to
>rebuild the db.
>	If, however, you just deleted pkgdb.db then "pkgdb -U" will
>repopulate it.
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>				Robert Huff
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If you haven't run locate since you delete /var/db/pkg you could run:

locate "/var/db/pkg"

This will at least give you a partial (maybe a full) listing of 
everything you have installed.  From there you could do a script that 
does something like:

for $program in <fileofpackagenames>
    pkg_delete $program
    pkg_add $program

Just a thought....

-Tom Grove