Date: 14 Mar 2001 14:14:19 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, jhunt@hermes.niicommunications.com Subject: Re: problem with ports -- revisted Message-ID: <44d7bkduyc.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: jhunt@hermes.niicommunications.com's message of "14 Mar 2001 04:32:38 %2B0100" References: <200103140331.f2E3VUN24873@hermes.niicommunications.com>
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jhunt@hermes.niicommunications.com (Jason Hunt) writes: > something I failed to mention. I am running FreeBSD 4.2 ALL my ports > give me this error msg: Your system is too old to use this bsd.port.mk. > > I believe I know what happened. I removed /var/db by accident now I have > this problem. I did however get a package to install by using sysinstall. That would do it. There's a file in /var/db called "port.mkversion" which contains the date of the system makefiles. You should be able to create it by hand to get this message to do away. The contents would be an 8-character date string, probably "20001121" for the 4.2 release. You could probably install a ports upgrade kit (http://www.freebsd.org/ports/) for a method that may be easier for a non-techie. > I would really to get this back to normal :) anything I can do to > restore /var/db so ports collection works again? thanks Nothing you can do (short of restoring the database from a backup) will enable the ports system to remove the ports (or packages) that are already installed, but installing new ports should work fine. [It's possible to get the ports database resynchronized to *mostly* remove the existing installed ports, but it won't be foolproof.] Good luck. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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