From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Apr 26 5:36:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from rock.ghis.net (rock.ghis.net [209.222.164.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3DDA37B6D2; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 05:36:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from will@blackdawn.com) Received: from argon.blackdawn.com (deepspace9.dcds.edu [207.231.151.2]) by rock.ghis.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA28990; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 05:36:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by argon.blackdawn.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2CA6518BD; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 08:18:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 08:18:09 -0400 From: Will Andrews To: Bhishan Hemrajani Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, Gunnar Flygt , Alex Charalabidis , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: /var/db/pkg wiped by Netscape install Message-ID: <20000426081809.B389@argon.blackdawn.com> References: <39069087.4F61F51B@gorean.org> <200004260727.e3Q7RXe62720@cytosine.dhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200004260727.e3Q7RXe62720@cytosine.dhs.org>; from bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org on Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 12:27:33AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 12:27:33AM -0700, Bhishan Hemrajani wrote: > How can you recover your ports information if this happens? I was bitten by this too, recently. Unfortunately, I don't think it's possible to recover this information, unless you happen to keep backups of such data. -- Will Andrews GCS/E/S @d- s+:+>+:- a--->+++ C++ UB++++ P+ L- E--- W+++ !N !o ?K w--- ?O M+ V-- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t++ 5 X++ R+ tv+ b++>++++ DI+++ D+ G++>+++ e->++++ h! r-->+++ y? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message