Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 04:13:12 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Robert Inder <robert@interactive.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portsnap and port versions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1070212023325.11741B-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <20070210190538.B3FD816A4A9@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 18:22:07 +0000 Robert Inder wrote:
> I asked for help because I was getting an out-of-date version of
> portupgrade --- 2.1.3 instead of 2.2.2 --- even though I had usedn
> portsnap.
>
> >>>>> Matthew Seaman writes:
> > Subject: Re: Portsnap and port versions
>
> :
> :
>
> > To see if your index is out of date, compare the output of:
>
> > cd /usr/ports
> > make search name=portindex
>
> > with
>
> > cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade
> > make -V PKGNAME
>
> BINGO!!! I was installing sysutils/portupgrade.
>
> I knew that portupgrade was in sysutils, so I went straight to it and
> used it...
>
> It didn't occur to me that there might be ANOTHER sysutils somewhere
> else in the ports tree.
>
> But there was, and the one in ports-mgmt had been updated by
> portsnap, so when I installed in THERE...
That seems odd, actually. I did a portsnap fetch then portsnap update
yesterday (albeit for 5-STABLE), which deleted a bunch of moved ports,
including sysutils/portupgrade, as well as adding the ports-mgmt ones.
I did have to do what Matthew and others have suggested, frankly a bit
more helpful to me than the 20070205: clue in /usr/ports/UPDATING ..
# pkgdb -F
# pkg_delete portupgrade-\*
# cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade
# make install
.. but that was after noticing that pkgdb -F was already whinging that
it couldn't chdir to /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade, so I'm surprised
that portsnap fetch plus portsnap update hadn't deleted it for you too?
> > Then use portupgrade as usual to upgrade whatever else you want to.
> Yup!
Cheers, Ian
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