From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 20 22:19:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A39037B401 for ; Tue, 20 May 2003 22:19:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.XtremeDev.com (xtremedev.com [216.241.38.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 143B743FBF for ; Tue, 20 May 2003 22:19:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd@xtremedev.com) Received: by mail.XtremeDev.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 23BDF70601; Tue, 20 May 2003 23:19:44 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 23:19:43 -0600 From: BSD To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030521051943.GA75906@Amber.XtremeDev.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: portupgrade with ro /usr/ports ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 05:19:45 -0000 I'm trying to use portupgrade (arg -ausvyD) to upgrade my installed ports. However, since I am nfs mounting /usr/ports from another FreeBSD machine readonly, and with WRKDIRPREFIX=/usr/portswork and DISTDIR=/usr/portsdist set in /etc/make.conf, portupgrade doesn't seem to like that. Is it possible to get portupgrade to work with a ro /usr/ports? If so, how? ---> Session started at: Tue, 20 May 2003 23:12:45 -0600 [Updating the portsdb in /usr/ports ... - 8632 port entries found Read-only file system = "/usr/ports/INDEX.db" ---> Session ended at: Tue, 20 May 2003 23:12:48 -0600 (consumed 00:00:02) /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/portsdb.rb:500:in `open_db`: database file error (PortsDB:DBError)