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| From: | Zac Medico <zmedico@×××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Big booboo! | ||
| Date: | Mon, 25 Jul 2005 09:04:34 | ||
| Message-Id: | 42E4AA13.5020202@gmail.com | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] Big booboo! by "Anthony E. Caudel" |
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| 1 | Anthony E. Caudel wrote: |
| 2 | > Help! I inadvertantly deleted my /var/db/pkg directory (and indeed my |
| 3 | > entire /var (Don't ask!)). Is there ANY way to regenerate it or am I |
| 4 | > SOL? |
| 5 | > |
| 6 | > The system still works, just not emerge. If necessary I can rebuild and |
| 7 | > migrate the apps but I'm hopeing... |
| 8 | > |
| 9 | > Tony |
| 10 | |
| 11 | If you have FEATURES="buildpkg" then it is possible to recover all of the /var/db/pkg data from the tbz2 files. Attached is a "quick and dirty" little script to do that. This dumps everything, including multiple versions of the same package if they exist. |
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| 13 | Zac |
| File name | MIME type |
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| xpak_dump.py | text/x-python |