Re: [Luarocks-developers] Broken installation

[Hisham <h...@hi...>]

On 26 June 2014 23:59, Ignacio Burgueño <ibu...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi. It seems that somehow I nuked the rocks I had installed.
> LuaRocks does not see them but they are on disk. (ie. "require" works in
> Lua)
>
> When that happened, I usually did "luarocks-admin make_manifest
> path_to_repo" and everything goes back to normal but now it does not work.
>
> How can I rebuild the system manifest?

Weird, make_manifest is the usual method. make_manifest scans the
rocks dir (.../lib/luarocks/rocks, the one with one subdirectory for
each rock) to rebuild the manifest; inside each subdir there's a
rock_manifest file, and the whole manifest is built from those. If
that directory is gone, there's no way to rebuild the manifest
unfortunately.

-- Hisham