Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 12:02:05 -0700 From: kent <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there a way to clean up the ports database without a lot of manual intervention? Message-ID: <200410021202.05949.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20041002184908.GB564@kirk.dlee.org> References: <20041002184908.GB564@kirk.dlee.org>
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On Saturday 02 October 2004 11:49 am, Doug Lee wrote: > I have reason to believe I've made some mistakes trying to run pkgdb > -F to clean up a couple ports trees on different FreeBSD systems I > run. I confess I've never fully understood how to answer some of the > prompts during that process. Also though, my ports tree was formed > before portupgrade/portinstall were available, so I have some ports > that were installed via a simple "make install," some by > portinstall/portupgrade, some I installed first with "make install" > and then tried to upgrade with portupgrade, etc. I like the information provided by portsearch. You can find it in /usr/ports/Tools/scripts. I created an alias called search, which is equated to 'portsearch -n $1'. It is handy when you are told to run "pkgdb -F" because you can see what the index thinks the port should be linked to and not the strange link you are provided with as a choice at times. I only see the strange choice when the port it needs is not installed. The easy way out for me is to install the missing port manually. > > Is there a process I can run that will make the database consistent > again so I can install/upgrade ports without error? I don't care if > it takes two days to run. :-) I also know I may be asking the > impossible here, but I figure it doesn't hurt to try. I think that "pkgdb -fu" is going to be the only automated recovery. Kent > > Please email responses directly to me so they don't get lost in > traffic. -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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