regenerate files in pkgdb

Rene Ladan r.c.ladan at student.tue.nl
Tue Mar 15 15:42:23 PST 2005


On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:42:19PM +0000, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:32:26PM +0100, Rene Ladan wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > due to an unclean unmount I've lost several files in /var/db/pkg, mostly
> > +CONTENTS (I guess).  Is there a quick way to readd these files, apart
> > from forcibly reinstalling these ports (31 in total)?
> 
> Not easily, that was the only copy.
> 
Even `pkg_create -b corrupt-pkg` doesn't work :(
Let's go for a recompile then.

> 
> Kris
> 
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