On Oct 11, 2007, at 5:39 PM, James wrote:
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 18:14 -0400, Robert Huff wrote:
James writes:
What has happened, though, is I've never ran rm in
/usr/ports/distfiles. I'm going to think for a little bit about
a script that can move through /usr/ports/distfiles and reinstall
everything that exists there.
Having been in almost the identical situation for different
rasons, I sympathize.
Yes, this will involve a sweep through /usr/ports distfiles.
If you haven't ever deleted anything, I suggest a prelimiary manual
run deleting everything but the most recent version. This has a
down-side, but it will prevent cluttering the rebuilt system with
unused ports.
/usr/ports/distfiles is definitely looking promising. awk is too damn
painful to work with, so I'm going to dust off my perl skills.
Hell, this could actually turn out to be fun. And if I write the script
properly, it might make a nice disaster recovery tool
for /usr/ports/ports-mgmt - it can be called
"WhenYou'reAnIdiotLikeJamesWasOnFreeBSDQuestions"
Well, if you figure out what ports you have installed, you can
regenerate the
pkgdb using:
make -DNO_BUILD -DNO_INSTALL generate-plist fake-pkg
for each port.
I just tested that using a temporary PKG_DBDIR. In case you wanna see
what
happens, here's what I did:
mkdir -p /tmp/var/db/pkg
cd /usr/ports/shells/bash
env PKG_DBDIR=/tmp/var/db/pkg make -DNO_BUILD -DNO_INSTALL \
generate-plist fake-pkg
Wow, that's great! I understand that it has the caveats that you
mentioned, but it's
*at least* a fantastic start.
James
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If you don't run 'make clean' then you can look for the 'work'
directory to know if you've installed it or not. But some of the port
tools automatically run make clean for you so they would disappear. A
simple 'find /usr/ports -type d -name work' would probably work well
enough unless you wanted it all automated.
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