Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:12:22 -0600 From: James <jamesh@lanl.gov> To: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg Message-ID: <1192803142.73574.9.camel@secretariat.lanl.gov> In-Reply-To: <20071018201141.49b2493a@gumby.homeunix.com.> References: <1192134379.33933.9.camel@secretariat.lanl.gov> <200710122313.59809.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <20071013011349.66164ced@gumby.homeunix.com.> <200710131705.11020.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <20071013221326.78ede247@gumby.homeunix.com.> <1192733493.64553.67.camel@secretariat.lanl.gov> <20071018201141.49b2493a@gumby.homeunix.com.>
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On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 20:11 +0100, RW wrote: > On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:51:33 -0600 > James <jamesh@lanl.gov> wrote: > > > > It depends what state the ports were in at the time of the > > > accident. If you haven't run a leaf-cutting program recently you > > > may have old dependencies and tools that have become leaves - they > > > may take years to show-up. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > > I just discovered pkg_which. > > > > I'm thinking I can use this to solve my (still haven't worked on) > > problem. Any ideas why this might be a bad idea? I essentially feed > > it a list from /usr/ports/distfiles and move on. > > > Do you have the database file? The default location is in the directory > you deleted. Yes. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Feeding pkgdb/pkg_which a port creates a directory for that port in /var/db/pkg. It then returned a question mark, which kind of sucked, silence being golden in unix, but I had an entry for openmpi appear in /var/db/pkg Is this really just meaningless grasping at straws? It looked like this in conjunction with pkgdb -L would work. James
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