Uggg!

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Fri Jun 1 08:33:46 UTC 2007


On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 08:57:50AM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Quoting Warner Losh <imp at harmony.bsdimp.com> (from Thu, 31 May 2007  
> 23:21:15 -0600 (MDT)):
> 
> >my portupgrade -a died in the middle.  Well, the laptop in my battery died
> 
> A laptop in the battery... wow, is the decharging now computer optimized? 
> ;-)
> 
> >at a bad time.  all of my +CONTENTS files are gone.  Is there any hope?
> 
> Hard solution:
>  - get your ports in /usr/ports down to the corrsponding installed version
>  - "make install -DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER" each
> 
> Easy solution:
>  - let your ports as is
>  - force an install
>  - pray that not much files have changed
>  - "pkgdb -F" and let it remove the old ports for those where more  
> than one exists
> 
> Collaborative solution:
>  - post the pkgname of each
>  - let people here send the +CONTENTS files to you

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.

Kris


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