In message <Pine.NEB.4.58.0402191505070.206@forsaken.i.purplei.com>, David Brow
nlee writes:
>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 '/' :)
>

The issue isn't getting the files; it's getting an installable package.
That is, I want the equivalent of pkg_tarup from dump files.  To make 
life more fun, this package is in /usr/X11R6 (a botch, but I didn't 
know about xpkgwedge at the time I set that machine up).


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb