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Date:      Wed, 21 May 2003 09:26:53 +0200
From:      Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>
To:        BSD <bsd@xtremedev.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portupgrade with ro /usr/ports ?
Message-ID:  <20030521072653.GA51906@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20030521051943.GA75906@Amber.XtremeDev.com>
References:  <20030521051943.GA75906@Amber.XtremeDev.com>

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On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 11:19:43PM -0600, BSD wrote:
> 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=3D/usr/portswork and
> DISTDIR=3D/usr/portsdist set in /etc/make.conf, portupgrade doesn't seem
> to like that.
>=20
> Is it possible to get portupgrade to work with a ro /usr/ports? If so,
> how?

You need to set PORTS_INDEX and PORTS_DBDIR in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf
to e.g. /var/db. There are comments in the top of that file.

HTH,

--Stijn

--=20
In the force if Yoda's so strong, construct a sentence with words in
the proper order then why can't he?

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