Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 11:04:35 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: stan <stanb@panix.com> Subject: Re: How can I rebuild prots databases? Message-ID: <200403041104.35179.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20040304130754.GA30619@teddy.fas.com> References: <20040304130754.GA30619@teddy.fas.com>
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On Thursday 04 March 2004 05:07 am, stan wrote: > I'n updating a bunch of older (around 4.2) machines. On ne of them I > seem to have managed to toatly muck up the ports dayabases :0( > > I'm getting things like this when I run portupgrade: > > ! (pgaccess-0.98.6) (missing origin) > ! (acroread-3.02) (missing origin) > ! (netscape-wrapper-2000.07.07) (missing origin) > > I think the best plan is to completly rebuild from scratch the > databases that contain available ports, and the ports that are > installed on this machine. I've tried various combinations of pkgdb > -F and pkgd -Uu. to no avail. > > Can I just remove all of these databases, and rebuiold them from > scratch? If so, how do I acomplish this? Try portsdb -fu but I think I would manually instally ruby-1.8, ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2, and portupgrade first. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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