Lost /var/db/pkg

[Robison, Dave]

On 06/13/2012 16:10, Waitman Gobble wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:
>
>> On 13 June 2012 12:17, jb <jb.1234abcd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> William Orr <will <at> worrbase.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I had a hard disk failure some time ago, and I ended up losing
>>>> /var/db/pkg/ and everything under it (before you say I should've been
>>>> backing it up, I know, I was actually doing an initial full when this
>>>> happened). Is there a way I can restore it, or at least manually add
>>>> entries I know for sure about?
>>> forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=6466
>>> "The application themselves are still installed and will keep
>> functioning, you
>>> just removed the records of their installation. When you later install
>> newer
>>> versions, you may have to use a force flag to overwrite files (the port
>> thinks
>>> it is uninstalled after all). The new port installations will get
>> recorded in
>>> /var/db/pkg again.'
>>>
>>> jb
>> This will work if you need minimal downtime, but *will* come back to
>> bite you some time down the line.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Eitan Adler
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> you could cross reference the package .tbz files with what's on your
> system.
>
> ie, tar -ztvf apache-2.2.22_5.tbz
> shows you what's in /usr/local/bin, etc. Might even be able to focus on man
> pages only to get an xref index.
>
> I believe the files for /var/db/pkg are in the tbz files.
> if you didn't keep your system up to date it might be trouble matching
> versions, but you could get the list and see what's what, or at least have
> a good idea of what _was_ installed.
> I haven't tried but you could stick the 'current' files for /var/db/pkg
> from tbz, matching what's installed - regardless of the 'new' version and
> actual version installed, then to a pkg_delete --force then pkg_add .tbz .
> it might complain about missing files but will 'prolly function.
> If you have like 700-1000+ packages it might be worth the trouble.
>
> A thought :)
>
> Waitman Gobble
> San Jose California USA
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locate /var/db/pkg

Might show you what was there recently...

ls /usr/ports/distfiles

might also go a long way toward showing you what you once had installed.

apologies if these were previously mentioned.

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