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Date:      Wed, 26 Apr 2000 08:18:09 -0400
From:      Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>
To:        Bhishan Hemrajani <bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG, Gunnar Flygt <flygt@sr.se>, Alex Charalabidis <alex@wnm.net>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: /var/db/pkg wiped by Netscape install
Message-ID:  <20000426081809.B389@argon.blackdawn.com>
In-Reply-To: <200004260727.e3Q7RXe62720@cytosine.dhs.org>; from bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org on Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 12:27:33AM -0700
References:  <39069087.4F61F51B@gorean.org> <200004260727.e3Q7RXe62720@cytosine.dhs.org>

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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 <andrews@technologist.com>
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