Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 10:45:28 -0700 From: Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> To: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cups problems on 10.3 release both Epson and HP Message-ID: <fb24721f-eb97-415f-0f0e-905be32c7d07@dreamchaser.org> In-Reply-To: <20161108120632.31037497@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> References: <2134837b-14ed-a35e-aec0-2490e268659d@dreamchaser.org> <20161105233720.586fd471@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <0d2306ad-8f96-c9bc-78ed-af0aea4daf50@dreamchaser.org> <20161106121440.221ba2e8@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <e6ac5133-613a-1546-39bc-56030521640e@dreamchaser.org> <20161107124357.1d278104@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <bcc924aa-5a7f-4368-037c-8380ab9cabcd@dreamchaser.org> <20161107211429.7acb7e6b@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <32481b91-6d29-7bea-6376-9a4c1b61016e@dreamchaser.org> <20161108120632.31037497@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org>
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On 11/08/16 04:06, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
>> Is there an easy way to discover and remove all "no longer existing" ports?
>> Or do I have to remove /usr/ports/* and rebuild everything?
<snip>
> I haven't used portsnap in a long while and I don't know the details of
> how it works, but I believe it doesn't check if your ports tree matches
> upstream. It simply downloads updates and applies them. So if there was
> a problem during one of these updates you're stuck with them. One source
> of trouble that I know of is when /var is a separate partition and
> portsnap runs out of disk space there. If you think that can happen on
> your machine you can make portsnap use a different directory by setting
> WORKDIR in /etc/portsnap.conf to a different value.
>
> You can get a list of ports that should be gone with this command:
> /bin/sh -c 'awk -F\| "/^[^#]/{print \$1}" MOVED | xargs ls -d 2>/dev/null'
thanks, that helped in more ways than one
> But the only way to be sure you have all changes is to delete everything
> under /usr/ports and /var/db/portsnap and run 'portsnap fetch extract'.
> I don't think you have to rebuild all packages. A regular check for
> updates with portmaster/portupgrade/... should be enough.
thanks again!
Gary
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