Glenn Lagasse wrote: > Hey Danek, > > * Danek Duvall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 08:52:07AM -0700, Glenn Lagasse wrote: >> >>> Is there any way to recover from this situation? >> Not very easily. Certainly not while battling a head cold. :) We've >> talked about being able to do this kind of "pkg fix" -- assume that what's >> on your disk is sane, but your metadata is corrupt or missing -- but it's >> not even remotely there yet. >> >> Now, if you still have files in /var/pkg/state/installed, then you know >> what you have on your system, and can manually re-download all your >> manifests. You'll have to remember what packages belong to what >> authorities, and if you had any filters applied to any packages. > > Thanks Danek. I thought I was probably out of luck. While I still have > a populated /var/pkg/state/installed directory (I wasn't *that* zealous > :-) )I don't think I know enough about the particulars to attempt a > recovery (the machine is a vanilla install from liveCD). So > reinstalling is probably the quicker (and easier to accomplish with > aforementioned head cold) solution. :-) >
You should still have the original data under the @install snapshot. Either create a clone or set snapdir=visible and copy the data out of that snapshot and you can get back to correct state if it was just a vanilla install. Dave _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
