Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:13:51 -0700 From: "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Fwd: using pkgdb Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0803291313h6548213ew7497dd8eea1d3e82@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7d6fde3d0803291313v2e1f237ejd414d617603e93b6@mail.gmail.com> References: <47EBDAB2.1050107@chuckr.org> <20080329095433.GA9758@holstein.holy.cow> <47EE6B0A.8010207@chuckr.org> <7d6fde3d0803291313v2e1f237ejd414d617603e93b6@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> wrote: > > Parv wrote: > > in message <47EBDAB2.1050107@chuckr.org>, > > wrote Chuck Robey thusly... > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> I'm using pkgdb because I wanted to try portupgrade, and it > >> required it. > > > > portupgrade does not require pkgdb. pkgdb is part of portupgrade; > > portupgrade installs pkgdb. > > I don't doubt that, but portupgrade itself tossed out the instruction to > me to > run pkgdb -F, to fix something (I don't know what). I didn't just want to > run > something which has such a confusing man page. I ran it under > instructions, and > now it's asking me questions which I can't figure out the effects of any > of the > offered actions will be. > > Everyone seems to want to toss me hazy hints instead of what those options > actually accomplish; I'm beginning to think that the only folks who are > answering are the folks who don't really know the answer. > > > > > > > - Parv > > > y => yes, I want the stale dependency to map to the proposed one. n => no, that proposed replacement is pure poppycock. a => who knows... [the Ruby code doesn't make sense for my virgin eyes -- I only do shell scripts, Perl, and some TCL :)..] The line of referring to is /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb:646. -Garrett
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