Re: Lost /var/db/pkg
Thanks, it looks like I had a copy from May in there that was fairly accurate! On Jun 13, 2012 5:03 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Eitan Adler wrote: On 12 June 2012 18:03, William Orr w...@worrbase.com wrote: 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? look in /var/db/pkgdb.bak.tbz ^^^ ITYM /var/backups/pkgdb.bak.tbz. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Lost /var/db/pkg
On 13/06/2012 02:03, William Orr wrote: 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? Reinstall all the ports on your system? Since you've lost /var/db/pkg, you won't have a handy record of what the necessary packages are. You can get a long way by starting with ports you want directly (eg. firefox) and reinstalling all of their dependencies. It's unlikely to be completely accurate, and the system will probably have odd little issues with normal ports maintenance going on. Perhaps the most effective procedure would be to wipe out the contents of /usr/local and /compat/linux and just start again from scratch. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Lost /var/db/pkg
El día Wednesday, June 13, 2012 a las 07:16:44AM +0100, Matthew Seaman escribió: On 13/06/2012 02:03, William Orr wrote: 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? Reinstall all the ports on your system? Since you've lost /var/db/pkg, you won't have a handy record of what the necessary packages are. You can get a long way by starting with ports you want directly (eg. firefox) and reinstalling all of their dependencies. It's unlikely to be completely accurate, and the system will probably have odd little issues with normal ports maintenance going on. Perhaps the most effective procedure would be to wipe out the contents of /usr/local and /compat/linux and just start again from scratch. The later is the only way: wipe out /usr/local and /compat/linux because many ports during the intent of 'make install' will check for files there and do nothing for ports they depend on because they 'think' that the port on which they depend on is installed already. Without this you will never ever get a correct /var/db/pkg. matthias -- Matthias Apitz e g...@unixarea.de - w http://www.unixarea.de/ UNIX since V7 on PDP-11, UNIX on mainframe since ESER 1055 (IBM /370) UNIX on x86 since SVR4.2 UnixWare 2.1.2, FreeBSD since 2.2.5 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Lost /var/db/pkg
Matthew Seaman writes:
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?
Reinstall all the ports on your system? Since you've lost
/var/db/pkg, you won't have a handy record of what the necessary
packages are. You can get a long way by starting with ports you
want directly (eg. firefox) and reinstalling all of their
dependencies.
It's unlikely to be completely accurate, and the system will
probably have odd little issues with normal ports maintenance
going on. Perhaps the most effective procedure would be to wipe
out the contents of /usr/local and /compat/linux and just start
again from scratch.
Only that's going to eradicate anything in /usr/local that a)
one wants/uses and b) wasn't put there by ports. (Tell me you don't
have a handful of scripts which have been working happily away since
you wrote them in the early Devonian. :-)
A less drastic path would be to wipe out /usr/local/{lib,
libexec}, /compat/linux, and whatever directory has port-installed
docs.
Check /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/etc (especially rc.d/), and
/usr/local/share; many files there are named for their ports. Grep
bin/ for anything whose first line is #! /bin/sh, and figure out
where it came from.
_Now_ start with major prograns you know were installed -
on my system that would be emacs, FireFox, Java, LibreOffice,
ImageMagick, and mplayer - and get out your copy of very long
pretentious novel - because even on a fast system you're talking
days to put everything back.
Robert learned the hard way Huff
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Re: Lost /var/db/pkg
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Lost /var/db/pkg
On 13 June 2012 12:17, jb jb.1234a...@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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Lost /var/db/pkg
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: On 13 June 2012 12:17, jb jb.1234a...@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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org 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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Lost /var/db/pkg
On 06/13/2012 16:10, Waitman Gobble wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: On 13 June 2012 12:17, jb jb.1234a...@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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org 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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org 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. -- Dave Robison Sales Solution Architect II FIS Banking Solutions 510/621-2089 (w) 530/518-5194 (c) 510/621-2020 (f) da...@vicor.com david.robi...@fisglobal.com _ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Lost /var/db/pkg
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:17:20 + (UTC) jb 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.' I wouldn't do that, it's not as simple as that post suggests. It's likely to lead to a lot of files being orphaned, which may lead to build or runtime errors in the future, or vulnerabilities that portaudit can't detect. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Lost /var/db/pkg
On 12 June 2012 18:03, William Orr w...@worrbase.com wrote: 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? look in /var/db/pkgdb.bak.tbz -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Lost /var/db/pkg
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Eitan Adler wrote: On 12 June 2012 18:03, William Orr w...@worrbase.com wrote: 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? look in /var/db/pkgdb.bak.tbz ^^^ ITYM /var/backups/pkgdb.bak.tbz. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Lost /var/db/pkg
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? Thanks, Will Orr (Please cc me on the replies, as I'm not subscribed to the list) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
