From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 27 13:40:09 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 D55F116A403 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:40:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B598913C457 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:40:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 29786 invoked from network); 27 Apr 2007 13:40:09 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 27 Apr 2007 13:40:09 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 4B2612842D; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:40:08 -0400 (EDT) To: Kevin Kinsey References: <4631EB20.20808@mykitchentable.net> <4631F760.80809@daleco.biz> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:40:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4631F760.80809@daleco.biz> (Kevin Kinsey's message of "Fri\, 27 Apr 2007 08\:15\:12 -0500") Message-ID: <44hcr2x7ev.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.97 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Drew Tomlinson , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: How to Upgrade Portupgrade? 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: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:40:09 -0000 Kevin Kinsey writes: > Drew Tomlinson wrote: > >> So this seems like updating portupgrade should be trivial but I am >> stuck. Suggestions appreciated. > > Yeah, I missed the note on this one, too. Not the change note, but > I don't recall seeing the instructions on what to do about it. > Tried deinstalling portupgrade and reinstalling? The catch-22, > of course, is that you can't "cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade" > in order to `make deinstall`. However, this might work (and I believe > it's the kludge I used to get around the issue): > > $ rm -rf /var/db/pkg/portupgrade* > $ cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade > $ make install clean A little safer would be to replace the first line with "pkg_delete portupgrade*". If you're not going to go with the "portupgrade -o" solution that someone already posted.