Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:23:34 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: DW <spock@dwinner.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg database backup and restore Message-ID: <44ac5vozvd.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <44E9FBA2.1010107@dwinner.net> (DW's message of "Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:29:54 -0400") References: <44E9FBA2.1010107@dwinner.net>
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DW <spock@dwinner.net> writes: > If part of a normal backup routine, we are regularly backing up > /var/db/pkg, how can we best use that backup in a scenario in which a > machine needs to be rebuilt from scratch, and we're trying to save > time going through and doing a portinstall on everything we can > remember that should be installed? (or alternatively taking a backup > of the results from a periodic "pkg_info > installed_packages.txt" and > painstakenly going through the list and reinstalling everything > one-by-one). If you are reinstalling all the ports anyway, and you know which ones they are, then you probably don't need /var/db/pkg for the restore. Feeding the list of packages into portupgrade for installation would make the ports reinstall much less painful on the humans involved. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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