On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 20:11 +0100, RW wrote: > On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:51:33 -0600 > James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > > > > 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.
Yes. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Feeding pkgdb/pkg_which a port creates a directory for that port in /var/db/pkg. It then returned a question mark, which kind of sucked, silence being golden in unix, but I had an entry for openmpi appear in /var/db/pkg Is this really just meaningless grasping at straws? It looked like this in conjunction with pkgdb -L would work. James _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"