Rebuilding /var/db/pkg

2007-12-29 Thread vittorio
I committed a crime! While upgrading the ports under the newly installed RELENG_7 (beta4) with portupgrade -arRk I **deleted ** the directory /var/db/pkg. Is there any way to rebuild it from scratch? Ciao Vittorio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Rebuilding /var/db/pkg

2007-12-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
vittorio wrote: I committed a crime! While upgrading the ports under the newly installed RELENG_7 (beta4) with portupgrade -arRk I **deleted ** the directory /var/db/pkg. Is there any way to rebuild it from scratch? Ciao Vittorio Nope, that was the only copy. Kris

Re: Rebuilding /var/db/pkg

2007-12-29 Thread Robert Huff
Kris Kennaway writes: I committed a crime! While upgrading the ports under the newly installed RELENG_7 (beta4) with portupgrade -arRk I **deleted** the directory /var/db/pkg. Is there any way to rebuild it from scratch? Nope, that was the only copy. Assuming there

Re: Rebuilding /var/db/pkg

2006-05-26 Thread Robertsen A. Riehle
On Thursday 25 May 2006 19:03, John Nielsen wrote: Quoting Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Robertsen A. Riehle writes: Say that the /var/db/pkg directory had been recursively erased off of a workstation that had ~300 packages on it. And, let's hypothetically say that this workstation's

Re: Rebuilding /var/db/pkg

2006-05-26 Thread Robert Huff
Robertsen A. Riehle writes: Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/Latest/gcc41.tbz... /var: write failed, filesystem is full info/gcc41/gccint.info: Write error: No space left on device Done. ^C /var: write failed, filesystem is full Signal 2

Rebuilding /var/db/pkg

2006-05-25 Thread Robertsen A. Riehle
Say that the /var/db/pkg directory had been recursively erased off of a workstation that had ~300 packages on it. And, let's hypothetically say that this workstation's ports tree was up to date as of yesterday. Is there any hope of rectifying this or is this workstation is a static ports

Re: Rebuilding /var/db/pkg

2006-05-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 05:55:55PM -0500, Robertsen A. Riehle wrote: Say that the /var/db/pkg directory had been recursively erased off of a workstation that had ~300 packages on it. And, let's hypothetically say that this workstation's ports tree was up to date as of yesterday. Is there

Rebuilding /var/db/pkg

2006-05-25 Thread Robert Huff
Robertsen A. Riehle writes: Say that the /var/db/pkg directory had been recursively erased off of a workstation that had ~300 packages on it. And, let's hypothetically say that this workstation's ports tree was up to date as of yesterday. Is there any hope of rectifying this or is

Re: Rebuilding /var/db/pkg

2006-05-25 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Robertsen A. Riehle writes: Say that the /var/db/pkg directory had been recursively erased off of a workstation that had ~300 packages on it. And, let's hypothetically say that this workstation's ports tree was up to date as of yesterday. Is there