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Date:      Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:33:13 -0400
From:      Jeff Dickens <jeff@seamanpaper.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: resync ports/packages after upgrade?
Message-ID:  <4601A499.50203@seamanpaper.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070321194546.GA75692@osiris.chen.org.nz>
References:  <460142FA.7090207@seamanpaper.com> <20070321194546.GA75692@osiris.chen.org.nz>

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Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:36:42AM -0400, Jeff Dickens wrote:
>   
>> I did a binary upgrade from 6.1 to 6.2 and made what I think was the 
>> mistake of having it install the ports tree over my existing ports 
>> tree.  I'd been using portupgrade to maintain my ports.  What's the 
>> easiest way to get back to "normal" ?
>>     
>
> Remove /usr/ports and resync with cvsup/csup (which could take a while)
> or portsnap.
>   

Thanks.. That's what I did, with Portsnap, although I didn't remove it 
first I think it did that for me.  I seem to be in good shape now.



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