port disaster

[Jyrki Wahlstedt]

For some reason yesterday, as I was doing 'port selfupdate; port  
outdated' that is quite routine for me, I ended up with error message  
saying something like: port installed failed, list element ended  
with } instead of space (the exact wording escapes me at the moment).
However, the result is that I am informed I have no ports installed!  
Probably I have to install all ports again from scratch, which takes  
time that could be used more productively and is a RPITA?! How could  
this kind of situation be avoided or if disaster hits, how could the  
ports be restored? The problem is to find all packages that are  
installed and active, and to find the configuration (i.e. variants)  
used to build them.
I'd hope a new selfupdate could solve the problem, but I am not  
optimistic.

not a happy man at the moment,
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