Mistakenly deleted some contents of OS sub-directory

T-Aoki said:
Not every records would be preserved, but all info about "what was installed at the moment you missingly deleted /usr/local" should be kept at least at the moment.
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Hi T-Aoki

One favour please, a pointer towards where i can find the information related to the installed packages for the very moment the issue happened.

Just producing a list would suffice in my case.

Thanks
rraj
 
Just reinstall everything with,

pkg install -f $(pkg info -ao | awk '{print $2}')

Or if you just want the list,

pkg info -ao | awk '{print $2}'

Redirect it to some file if needed.
 
cy@ said:
pkg info -ao | awk '{print $2}'
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No need for awk or any kind of parsing; pkg query -a '%o'

Code: 
     -a, --all
               Match all packages from the database
Code: 
     %o  Origin of the matched package
pkg-query(8)

Or getting just the name of the package (without the version): pkg query -a '%n'
What pkg info -ao outputs; pkg query -a '%n-%v %o' | column -t
 
rraj said:
One favour please, a pointer towards where i can find the information related to the installed packages for the very moment the issue happened.
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How you can produced the list you want is already poited out.
So the hint for which directory to backup would be /var/db/pkg/.
This is where pkg stores its records by default.

Note that the parent directory, /var/db/, is worth backed up on critical operations.

For example, if you're building ports having options locally and changed any of the options, your choices are stored in per-ports subdirectories under /var/db/ports/ like /var/db/ports/devel_dbus/options for devel/dbus by default.
 
vmisev said:
OK, lets do it step by step.
First are you the root user and in the /root directory? You should be if you did su - first.
Do
su -
enter root password and check who and where you are with
whoami; pwd
If output is
root
/root
Then check that you are using sh shell
echo $SHELL
Output should be
/bin/sh
Then do
pkg query -e '%a = 0' '%n'
You should see bunch of packages listed in the console. If that works, do
pkg query -e '%a = 0' '%n' > pkg-list.txt
ls
If pkg-list.txt is there, do
cat pkg-list.txt
Output should be same as just pkg query without redirection.
Then make variable with a contest of that file:
pkglist=$(cat pkg-list.txt)
check that variable has right content with
echo $pkglist
If you see number of packages printed in one long line, proceed with
pkg install -f $pkglist
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Hi

The last command leaves output: pkg No Packages <Package-Name> have been found in repositories.

No package install takes place therein.


Thanks
rraj
 
rraj said:
Hi

The last command leaves output: pkg No Packages <Package-Name> have been found in repositories.

No package install takes place therein.


Thanks
rraj
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What was your output of pkg query -e '%a = 0' '%n'?
I said:
vmisev said:
Then do
pkg query -e '%a = 0' '%n'
You should see bunch of packages listed in the console. If that works, do
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If this worked, you probably mistyped something in the steps after that I recommended, but if you didn't see list of pkgs after this command, all commands after that are pointless and it looks like you nuked far more than your /usr/local/.

At this point maybe best thing to do will be to copy /home/<your_user_name>/ somewhere (if you have anything of importance there) and reinstall FreeBSD from scratch.
 
vmisev said:
What was your output of pkg query -e '%a = 0' '%n'?
I said:

If this worked, you probably mistyped something in the steps after that I recommended, but if you didn't see list of pkgs after this command, all commands after that are pointless and it looks like you nuked far more than your /usr/local/.

At this point maybe best thing to do will be to copy /home/<your_user_name>/ somewhere (if you have anything of importance there) and reinstall FreeBSD from scratch.
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Hi vmisev

The output can be found.

root@localhost:/ # pkg query -e '%a = 0' '%n' | nc termbin.com 9999



Thanks
rraj
 
That's great! Now please read again #16 carefully and try it again step by step, making sure that you type everything correctly.

And please, don't add full stop ( . ) to the end of termbin links.
 
vmisev said:
That's great! Now please read again #16 carefully and try it again step by step, making sure that you type everything correctly.

And please, don't add full stop ( . ) to the end of termbin links.
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Hi

Everything went as normal. But the ending remains as previously in #34.

Thanks
rraj
 
vmisev said:
What is the output of pkg update -f ?
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Hi

The requested output in previous post is:
Code: 
[rraj@localhost ~]$ doas pkg update -f
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.conf: 100%    179 B   0.2kB/s    00:01    
Fetching data.pkg: 100%   10 MiB 864.0kB/s    00:12    
Processing entries: 100%
Fetching provides database: 100%   20 MiB 724.6kB/s    00:29    
Extracting database....success
FreeBSD repository update completed. 35671 packages processed.
Updating FreeBSD-kmods repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.conf: 100%    179 B   0.2kB/s    00:01    
Fetching data.pkg: 100%   30 KiB  30.7kB/s    00:01    
Processing entries: 100%
The provides database is up-to-date.
FreeBSD-kmods repository update completed. 210 packages processed.
Updating FreeBSD-base repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.conf: 100%    179 B   0.2kB/s    00:01    
Fetching data.pkg: 100%   48 KiB  49.2kB/s    00:01    
Processing entries: 100%
The provides database is up-to-date.
FreeBSD-base repository update completed. 525 packages processed.
All repositories are up to date.
Thanks
rraj
 
Great! Now just doas pkg upgrade -f

P.S. Hm, how that doas is working when you said that you deleted all in /usr/local ?
 
vmisev said:
Great! Now just doas pkg upgrade -f

P.S. Hm, how that doas is working when you said that you deleted all in /usr/local ?
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Hi

pkg upgrade -f deinstalled deleted & then reinstalled everything along with newer packages.

Thanks
rraj
 
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