From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 9 13:31:43 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 2B1EF16A4CE for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 13:31:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B505B43D55 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 13:31:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from [207.41.94.233] (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i39KVZ8a002935; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 13:31:35 -0700 From: Kent Stewart To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 13:31:37 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <4076527F.1060902@users.sourceforge.net> <20040409195959.GA43582@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200404091331.37765.kstewart@owt.com> cc: Andreas Davour cc: Gary Kline 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 20:31:43 -0000 On Friday 09 April 2004 01:08 pm, Andreas Davour wrote: > 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? > You figured out the right one. I frequently mix the 2 up but only one has the -uU option :). I use make index instead of portsdb -u but portsdb now uses make index to build INDEX[-5]. So my way isn't different any more. I also forgot to add that I use a cronjob to do the cvsup but I do it twice a day. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html