On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Steve Bellovin wrote:

> I have some disk backups (in 'dump' format) that contain a version of an
> installed package I'd like to recover.  Is there any easy way to do
> this?

	I'm probably missing an aspect of the question, but assuming you
	have a dump of the entire filesystem containing the pkg db
	directory and usr/pkg (or wherever you have installed):

	restore xvf <dumpfile> var/db/pkg

	awk '\!/[+@]/{print "usr/pkg/"$0}' var/db/pkg/<pkg>/+CONTENTS \|
			xargs restore xvf <dumpfile>

	should extract the pkg db directory, then everything listed in
	+CONTENTS for the given package. (Adjust <dumpfile> and <pkg>
	to taste, and run in smewhere other than '/' :)

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