Broken /usr/lib on FreeBSD 4.7
Mike Hogsett
hogsett at csl.sri.com
Wed Oct 8 13:30:04 PDT 2003
> I inadvertently broke the /usr/lib on my FreeBSD 4.7 box. Here's how
> this happened.
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> How can I fix this?
>
> Any tips or advice will be greatly appreciated
Yikes! I feel your pain.
I have never done this, but it may be possible to grab all
of the files from :
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.7-RELEASE/bin
and restore your /usr/lib from there. If you examine the install.sh file
at the above URL you will see that the bin.* files are are a split(1)'d
tar file. You should be able to extract what you need from them.
If this does succeed I would recommend cvsup'ing to your release of choice
(RELENG_4_{7,8}) and rebuilding the world.
I wish you the best of luck.
- Mike
P.S. Please dont hold me responsible if the above doesn't work. It was
my first thought and I have never tried this before.
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