Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 13:05:14 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.bsdimp.com>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Uggg! Message-ID: <20070601170514.GA54912@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <10723ADA-FD53-45F8-BDFA-DBD98CBC212E@FreeBSD.org> References: <200706010521.l515LE4N074880@harmony.bsdimp.com> <20070601085750.ang0g5aqp0kg8c8k@webmail.leidinger.net> <20070601083345.GA48323@rot13.obsecurity.org> <10723ADA-FD53-45F8-BDFA-DBD98CBC212E@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 02:15:48AM -0700, Ade Lovett wrote: > > On Jun 01, 2007, at 01:33 , Kris Kennaway wrote: > >Download the packages from the FTP site and either reinstall them or > >extract the +CONTENTS. This will work best if you don't have local > >make.conf customizations, otherwise you will see variance. > > Actually, this does bring up a meta-issue that ports, pkgsrc, > portage, all suffer from. > > What happens when the metadata gets blown away (by accident, hardware > crash, flaming meteor from Mars, etc.) > > Is there anything we can do to mitigate this? > > Yes. It's an open-ended question. I also have no obvious solution. > But I do see the need for such. I am not really sure there is a solution: unless the user has used a precompiled "standard" package is not just representing data that is cached from somewhere else and can be reconstructed, it is usually unique to a particular build. Even if they use a standard package it may have changed in the meantime. Best solution is to back up /var/db/pkg if it is in danger of deletion by a wanton admin :) Kris
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