Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 09:53:12 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de> Cc: Brian Minard <bminard@flatfoot.ca>, pjklist@ekahuna.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Portupgrade / pkgdb question Message-ID: <3CE686F8.4070909@owt.com> References: <20020517051517645.AAA373@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> <15588.63940.774526.122365@yop.flatfoot.ca> <3CE67EC7.56AE9A57@liwing.de>
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Jens Rehsack wrote: >> > But there is no interactive search or anything to help find the >> > correct path to input to correct this problem when running "pkgdb - >> > F", so does this mean that I have to sit down, manually find and make >> > a list of all the modern equivalents/locations of all 200 installed >> > packages, then manually type in each path for each old package during >> > "pkgdb -F" before I can effectively use portupgrade? >> > >> >>Try portsdb -Uu. The recommendation is that you run this command >>after you update your ports collection. I run this command after each >>cvsup of the ports collection I perform. >> > > It will be done by "make index" in /usr/ports, too. That only remakes /usr/ports/INDEX and the portupgrade set also needs INDEX.db. If you use portsdb -uU, it remakes both of them. > > Jens -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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