From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 15 22:43:46 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4025106564A for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:43:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from DStaal@usa.net) Received: from mail.magehandbook.com (173-8-4-45-WashingtonDC.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.8.4.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 711428FC12 for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:43:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.50] (Mac-Pro.magehandbook.com [192.168.1.50]) by mail.magehandbook.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 261D5FF3 for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:43:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:42:48 -0500 From: Daniel Staal To: FreeBSD Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20120115153520.62812867@scorpio> References: <40F552CF734E955EB7878763@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> <20120115103332.09d5f2ca@scorpio> <329BBA85301E2290BF6E0570@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> <20120115122547.0b71e16c@scorpio> <18121B8E00E7690C5FB44C5C@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> <20120115153520.62812867@scorpio> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: Portmanager Status Report Gone X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD Questions List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:43:46 -0000 --As of January 15, 2012 3:35:20 PM -0500, Jerry is alleged to have said: > You don't have to manually erase the tree. I believe that: > > "portsnap fetch extract" > > is all you need to do to replace the ports tree with a fresh copy. It > won't hurt anything since it doesn't touch the configuration files. --As for the rest, it is mine. Done, and it didn't fix my problem. Something's obviously gone seriously weird with my system. What would happen if I did blow away the config files? What's the minimum necessary for my system to be able to manage it's ports collection? I really don't want to reinstall from scratch over this (If nothing else, it's my main fileserver. I've got backups, but that would take ages.), but I'm thinking rebuilding my ports database from bare bones sounds like it might be a good idea. Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. ---------------------------------------------------------------