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Date:      Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:51:21 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: undo make deinstall
Message-ID:  <20091021225121.GP29215@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20091021213619.GA46898@guilt.hydra>
References:  <20091021192839.GA12166@guilt.hydra> <62A5FC38-BD7F-4941-B760-ABF2C1700E73@mac.com> <20091021194038.GA46360@guilt.hydra> <354BF5E4-50E9-4230-A221-E505CB55E873@mac.com> <20091021213619.GA46898@guilt.hydra>

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In the last episode (Oct 21), Chad Perrin said:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 01:31:03PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> > 
> > And, of course, if you care about a system, then you would already be
> > taking backups that you could restore from if you needed to...
> 
> Of course, but I would hope there's an easier way to handle things than
> restoring the whole system from backup.

If you do have backups, you could restore /var/db/pkg/mypackage/+CONTENTS,
then restore the files listed in that file.  A bit more complicated than a
full restore, but maybe quicker (depending on your backup system) and
requiring less space.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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