Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 06:20:52 -0700 From: "Chris H" <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> To: <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Rebuilding my ports area Message-ID: <b6b8f29eb300db1057f530df0dfa1a7c@ultimatedns.net> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1507241707150.880@aneurin.horsfall.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1507241707150.880@aneurin.horsfall.org>
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On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 17:21:07 +1000 (EST) Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote > FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p20 (GENERIC) #0: Tue Jul 21 19:29:33 UTC 2015 > > Having completely scragged my ports area following various changes to > pkg/pkgng/etc, and being unable to "sysinstall" it from CD (not found for > some reason) or via FTP (not found on server etc), I found a pristine copy > of ports.txz and unpacked it (sigh, yet another compression scheme), after > renaming the old directory. > > Anyway, what do I do now? Assume that many ports have been installed, and > that the databases etc are probably a dog's breakfast, per the conflicts > that I have posted here earlier. If it helps, I have a list of those > ports that were installed, and hopefully the dependencies will be taken > care of automagically. > > Thanks. Maybe I'm missing something regarding your particular situation. But wouldn't svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/ports/head /usr/ports have given it to you? --Chris > > -- > Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer" > Watson never said "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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