/var/db/pkg deleted..what to do?

[Tim Bishop]

On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 14:04 -0500, Chris Haulmark wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 13:52 -0500, Chris Haulmark wrote:
> > What is the best suggestion to a friend who runs a FreeBSD workstation.
> > 
> > He tried to delete mysql completely but deleted /var/db instead
> > of /var/db/mysql
> > 
> > He has dozens of packages installed from the ports.  He mainly uses
> > gnome2 and several other major applications...it would be a pain to
> > reinstall everything while he is depending on his memory of what he had
> > installed in the first place.
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> 
> An update.
> 
> I am playing around with using portsdb -rR pkg_name.  What I installed
> is a major package like gnome and it listed several other packages that
> can be reinstalled with portupgrade -f.
> 
> I am still open for any suggestions to rebuild the package database
> without having to recompile or pkg_add everything.

Depending on how tidy your friend is, you might find the list of
distfiles in /usr/ports/distfiles helpful.

Cheers,
Tim.

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