From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 3 07:43:27 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A37D016A417 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 07:43:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolaj.thygesen@diamondbox.dk) Received: from webmail1.b-one.net (webmail1.b-one.net [195.47.247.29]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EC3713C4B5 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 07:43:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolaj.thygesen@diamondbox.dk) Received: by webmail1.b-one.net (Postfix, from userid 33) id AFBB91802625; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 09:43:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 80.80.2.75 (SquirrelMail authenticated user nikolaj.thygesen@diamondbox.dk) by webmail1.one.com with HTTP; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 09:43:25 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <5077.80.80.2.75.1191397405.squirrel@webmail1.one.com> In-Reply-To: <20070918162214.43a1988f@gumby.homeunix.com.> References: <8980.80.80.2.75.1190116887.squirrel@webmail1.one.com> <20070918124601.GA52705@amilo.cenkes.org> <20070918162214.43a1988f@gumby.homeunix.com.> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 09:43:25 +0200 (CEST) From: nikolaj.thygesen@diamondbox.dk To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.10a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Deleted /var/db/pkg 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: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:43:27 -0000 Hi list, Thanks for all the feedback I got concerning the recreation of my package database - it's been most helpful. I'm pretty much home free now, and I learnt a lot during the process; I just have a question regarding using the "-o" option of portupgrade. I understand that this option, colloquially speaking, lets one port take another ports place. It just seems that this replacement is respected only when using "make install" and "portupgrade." When using "portinstall" or "pkg_add", these programs insist on installing for example either "cdrtools" or "cjk-cdrtools" depending on which one is not installed - ie. it wants to install the one variant not currently being installed. Is this expected behaviour or am I doing something wrong?? My "pkgtools.conf" has had the appropriate line added. br - Nikolaj Thygesen