Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 13:39:12 -0400 From: Louis LeBlanc <FreeBSD@keyslapper.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing the ports dir to start all over Message-ID: <20040818173912.GA70638@keyslapper.org> In-Reply-To: <ff3ca390a8a8f16a2f5f8a.20040818102245.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com> References: <ff3ca390a8a8f16a2f5f8a.20040818102245.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 08/18/04 10:22 AM, Joshua Lewis sat at the `puter and typed: > I ran a cvsup this morning and now when running a make index I get several > errors. I also am getting several errors when running a make search > key=mono |more > > I figured I would just clean out the ports dir and start over. However I > don't want to go though and remove everyfile and ever dirrectory from the > ports tree. And the man for rmdir only has a -p switch. Not sure what the question is, but I gather you're looking for the remove recursive? Be careful with this one: rm -rf <whatever> Just don't use '*' for <whatever>. If you inadvertently use that from the wrong place, you'll loose a lot more than you bargained for. Before you do that though, just go to the ports directory and type: make fetchindex which will go get an updated INDEX file. I also seem to remember there is a problem rebuilding the index when you have ports subdirectories in the refuse file. I had a similar problem in 5.2.1, but I don't remember ever rebuilding the index in 4.10. HTH Lou -- Louis LeBlanc FreeBSD@keyslapper.org Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ Mencken and Nathan's Second Law of The Average American: All the postmasters in small towns read all the postcards.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040818173912.GA70638>