I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg

[RW]

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:51:33 -0600
James <jamesh at lanl.gov> wrote:

> > It depends what state the ports were in at the time of the
> > accident. If you haven't run a leaf-cutting program recently you
> > may have old dependencies and tools that have become leaves - they
> > may take years to show-up.
> > 
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> 
> I just discovered pkg_which.
> 
> I'm thinking I can use this to solve my (still haven't worked on)
> problem. Any ideas why this might be a bad idea? I essentially feed
> it a list from /usr/ports/distfiles and move on.


Do you have the database file? The default location is in the directory
you deleted.