From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 5 04:18:48 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 789E416A4CE for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 04:18:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail3.panix.com (mail3.panix.com [166.84.1.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F0D543D5A for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 04:18:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stanb@panix.com) Received: from panix.com (brillig.panix.com [166.84.1.76]) by mail3.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EDEA98E67 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 07:18:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from teddy.fas.com (pcp01010374pcs.mplsnt01.sc.comcast.net [68.58.176.69]) by panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 224182AA0E for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 07:18:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from stan by teddy.fas.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AzEHt-0000dz-00 for ; Fri, 05 Mar 2004 07:18:45 -0500 Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 07:18:45 -0500 From: stan To: Free BSD Questions list Message-ID: <20040305121845.GD2116@teddy.fas.com> Mail-Followup-To: Free BSD Questions list References: <20040304130754.GA30619@teddy.fas.com> <20040304195232.GA75417@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040304213621.GA14544@teddy.fas.com> <20040305010629.GA89717@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040305010629.GA89717@xor.obsecurity.org> X-Editor: gVim X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux X-Kernel-Version: 2.4.23 X-Uptime: 07:00:34 up 4 days, 19:36, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.05 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: Stan Brown Subject: Re: How can I rebuild prots databases? 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, 05 Mar 2004 12:18:48 -0000 On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 05:06:29PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 04:36:21PM -0500, stan wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 11:52:32AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:07:54AM -0500, 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) > > > > > > Whichever way you go you'll have to either reinstall these ports by > > > hand or tell portupgrade where they live in the ports tree (see > > > e.g. the -o flag to portupgrade). You installed them before the ports > > > collection started recording the location of the port used to install > > > the package, so you can rebuild the databases as much as you like, but > > > it won't fix it :) > > > > > > AH, that explains what's goin on. > > > > Is there a way to do this without spending a whole day or so doing things > > manually? > > I told you above how you'll have to go about solving it. It shouldn't > take more than a couple of minutes. Well I spent about 3 hours yesterday afternoon filling in package names to pkgdb -F's prompts, and I still can't get portupfrade to work :-) What do I need to delete to just start from scratch, and build this by had? Is portdb -F the correct way to be building it by hand? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin