From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 29 00:38:55 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42F7516A401 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:38:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from msoulier@digitaltorque.ca) Received: from mail.storm.ca (mail.storm.ca [209.87.239.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEE7513C469 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:38:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from msoulier@digitaltorque.ca) Received: from kanga.digitaltorque.ca (hs-216-106-102-70.storm.ca [216.106.102.70]) by mail.storm.ca (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l2T0csWq014537 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:38:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from tigger.digitaltorque.ca (tigger.digitaltorque.ca [192.168.1.3]) by kanga.digitaltorque.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92BE14E for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:38:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: by tigger.digitaltorque.ca (Postfix, from userid 500) id 87000240F4; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:38:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:38:48 -0400 From: "Michael P. Soulier" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070329003848.GX11147@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20070328011712.GR11147@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> <20070328041618.55976dab@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="r/w8vo2lxBmCPGjQ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070328041618.55976dab@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: Re: the art of pkgdb -F X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:38:55 -0000 --r/w8vo2lxBmCPGjQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 28/03/07 Gerard Seibert said: > You can run: >=20 > portmanager -u -p -l >=20 > That will rebuild all broken and or missing dependencies for all of > your ports. How does it know what ports are installed? Originally, I thought that the pkgdb was that source of information, so if it was gone, how could it be rebuilt? Obviously there is installed package metadata elsewhere. Just not sure where. > If you just want to correct a single port, try this: >=20 > portmanager /port/name-of-port -p -l Thanks. Mike --=20 Michael P. Soulier "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein --r/w8vo2lxBmCPGjQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGCwqXKGqCc1vIvggRAsrUAKCy+Oq3A/14N7N2MK5bQoKQUZPLeACfUMhl SK+sXfKGdBxrb/uvIDUSTzo= =Y9U4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --r/w8vo2lxBmCPGjQ--