From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 9 13:09:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A924F16A4CE for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 13:09:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from limicola.its.uu.se (limicola.its.UU.SE [130.238.7.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D3E743D3F for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 13:09:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ante@update.uu.se) Received: by limicola.its.uu.se (Postfix, from userid 205) id 3A9E48C833; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 22:09:19 +0200 (MSZ) Received: from limicola.its.uu.se(127.0.0.1) by limicola.its.uu.se via virus-scan id s2174; Fri, 9 Apr 04 22:09:11 +0200 Received: from Tempo.Update.UU.SE (Tempo.Update.UU.SE [130.238.19.17]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by limicola.its.uu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6D554955; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 22:09:10 +0200 (MSZ) Received: from localhost (amavis@localhost [127.0.0.1]) ESMTP id i39K964S009148; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 22:09:07 +0200 Received: from Tempo.Update.UU.SE (ante@ip6-localhost [IPv6:::1]) ESMTP id i39K8rrS009124; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 22:08:54 +0200 Received: from localhost (ante@localhost) with ESMTP id i39K8pGo009118; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 22:08:53 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: Tempo.Update.UU.SE: ante owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 22:08:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Andreas Davour To: Gary Kline In-Reply-To: <20040409195959.GA43582@tao.thought.org> Message-ID: References: <4076527F.1060902@users.sourceforge.net> <20040409195959.GA43582@tao.thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portupgrade problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 20:09:22 -0000 On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Gary Kline wrote: > If I can offer a practical tip re cvsu'ing and running 'pkgdb > -Uu', why not script it and run it out of cron? That's how I > make sure tht my ports tree is neat nd clean. Well, when I have succeeded in doing a portupgrade by hand I think that might be an option. I must feel confident that it works before I dare script it by cron. One thing confuses me, though. I refers to 'pkgdb -Uu', but the man page for that program don't mention a -U flag. There is another program called 'portsdb' that have both a -u and a -U flag. Which one am I supposed to use. Both? /andreas