From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 9 10:30:30 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 9322837B401 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 10:30:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCBFB43F75 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 10:30:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.11.6p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h39HURV12452; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 10:30:27 -0700 From: Kent Stewart To: David.Bear@asu.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 10:30:26 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <20030409091552.B9379@asu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030409091552.B9379@asu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304091030.26987.kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: portsdb 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, 09 Apr 2003 17:30:30 -0000 On Wednesday 09 April 2003 09:15 am, David Bear wrote: > I've been trying to find portsdb -- a utility often recommended as > the way to update the pkg data base. but I can't find it.. anywhere > > find / -name portsdb > > in /usr/ports make search key=portsdb > > and even the freebsd.org web site, looking for portsdb is never > found... > > I've feeling really stupid -- I must have missed something very > obvious.. Where can I find the portsdb program? Try portupgrade because it is one of the tools that is installed by it. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html