From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 3 14:55:08 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0B0E53B7 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2014 14:55:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fmailer.gwdg.de (fmailer.gwdg.de [134.76.11.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BDD7A14B8 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2014 14:55:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from um-excht-a02.um.gwdg.de ([134.76.11.222] helo=email.gwdg.de) by mailer.gwdg.de with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XPBxS-0004tp-9M; Wed, 03 Sep 2014 16:54:50 +0200 Received: from krabat.raven.hur (91.21.150.246) by email.gwdg.de (134.76.9.211) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.3.195.1; Wed, 3 Sep 2014 16:54:50 +0200 Message-ID: <54072BB5.5090209@gwdg.de> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 16:54:45 +0200 From: Rainer Hurling User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Huff , Subject: Re: reinstalling from portmaster backup package References: <54071A92.6050209@rcn.com> In-Reply-To: <54071A92.6050209@rcn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Level: - X-Virus-Scanned: (clean) by clamav X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 14:55:08 -0000 Am 03.09.2014 um 15:41 schrieb Robert Huff: > Through a series of steps I won't get into. I deinstalled port X.1 in > anticiparion of installing X,2. However, X.2 (built fine but) failed to > install. (I'm working on that.) > Fortunately, I have a portmaster backup of X.1 which I need to > reinstall in the meantime. Unfortunately, I find the portmaster > documentation ... obscure ... on how to do this. (OK, so I'm used to > ports not packages.) > Can someone tell me the command to reinstall (and reregister) X.1? Hmm. If you mean the files, portmaster backuped in /usr/ports/packages/portmaster-backup/, for me a simple 'pkg add X.1' is sufficient for install and registration of that port. Or do I misunderstand something? HTH, Rainer Hurling > > Respectfully, > > > Robert Huff