From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 17 21:04:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 C935416A525 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 21:04:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) Received: from zeus.dfwlp.com (zeus.dfwlp.com [208.11.134.127]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FB1643D45 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 21:04:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) Received: from athena.dfwlp.com (athena.dfwlp.com [192.168.125.83]) (authenticated bits=0) by zeus.dfwlp.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8HL4oIm035169 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 16:04:51 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) From: Jonathan Horne To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 16:04:50 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <20060917174427.2643.qmail@web34404.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060917174427.2643.qmail@web34404.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609171604.50633.freebsd@dfwlp.com> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.5 (2006-08-29) on zeus.dfwlp.com Subject: Re: Moving to new PC X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 21:04:52 -0000 On Sunday 17 September 2006 12:44, White Hat wrote: > --- Jonathan Horne wrote: > > [...] > > > sounds interesting enough. if you will supply the > > portmanager command syntax, > > ill supply the test computer, and post the results. > > I guess I would want to run portmanager in a force > update mode. > > portmanager -u -f -l -y > > should do it. It will create a log in > /var/log/portmanager.log so at least we can see what > transpires. The '-y' flag may not be necessary, but > should not hurt. It will force it to answer yes to any > questions. The only problem that I could forsee is the > building of Java. Those files would have to be > download prior to the build and installed in the > /usr/ports/distfiles directory. I think portmanager by > default does not do Java. That means that the > pm-020.conf file will have to be modified. Not a big > deal though. ok, test run #1 is under way. i built a system using the same base install that i did for my workstation (minimal). as prescribed, i then copied over the entire /var/db/pkg/ directory from my worktation to the new system, and issued the command 'portmanager -u -f -l -y'. so far, the test system is behaving as the experiment expected, and it is currently downloading sources and it looks to be building packages. ill update again later (probably need about a day, this test system is but an athlon 2000+ with an ages old hard drive). **update before i click send** the -y flag does not appear to be honored here, as gettext just stop to ask me what i would like built. cheers, jonathan