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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