Repair Database

[Christian Voelker]

Hello,

I think this is a rather common issue but I could not find
the answer myself. My receipts database is crashed due to
canceling a "port -f upgrade outdated" inadvertently.

I found a nice script in trac that seems to deal with this
situation - it is called repairfilemap.tcl, but unhappily
it does not play nice with the current version of macports.

There probably has to be some function inside macports that
can reconstruct the information of installed software be-
cause all data is still there inside the tree structure
and it would probably safe me some Gigabytes of downloads
and many hours of compile time because I have archive mode
set active.

I already tried to remove the file_map.db from
/opt/local/var/db/dports/receipts/, hoping it would be
rebuilt automagically upon issuing the next port command
but no, it did not! Damn me.


How did it come to this situation? When I had only a limited
number of ports installed, I used to update outdated ports
by resolving dependencies manually, uninstalling dependents,
upgrading, then reinstalling dependents manually again.
This tends to become impossible with such ports as zlib,
freetype or openssl sooner then later. Deactivating depen-
dents is for uninstalling deps and uninstalling inactive
ports does not work either giving the old version number
only without variants. Putting everything together manually
is errorprone and tedious.

port -R upgrade xyz was not capable to run updates in a
sensible order as well. Actually, I dont want to update all
installed ports always, but I came to a point where I tried
to do so, forcing upgrades but forgetting to make this
recursive. This took hours and messed up everthing. This
is where I stopped it. Now I just want all my archived
ports reinstalled or even better the database reconstructed.
using port -b install all did not help, and as port installed
does not list any ports as installed any more, targets such
as unarchive installed or inactive does not help either.

Any help appreciated, Christian