Rebuilding /var/db/pkg

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 05:55:55PM -0500, Robertsen A. Riehle wrote:
> Say that the /var/db/pkg directory had been recursively erased off of a 
> workstation that had ~300 packages on it.   And, let's hypothetically say 
> that this workstation's ports tree was up to date as of yesterday.  Is there 
> any hope of rectifying this or is this workstation is a static ports state 
> forever???

There is not (unless you go through by hand and figure out what was
installed), this is why backups are necessary.

Kris
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