Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 07:18:45 -0500 From: stan <stanb@panix.com> To: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How can I rebuild prots databases? Message-ID: <20040305121845.GD2116@teddy.fas.com> In-Reply-To: <20040305010629.GA89717@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20040304130754.GA30619@teddy.fas.com> <20040304195232.GA75417@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040304213621.GA14544@teddy.fas.com> <20040305010629.GA89717@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 05:06:29PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 04:36:21PM -0500, stan wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 11:52:32AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:07:54AM -0500, stan wrote: > > > > I'n updating a bunch of older (around 4.2) machines. On ne of them I seem > > > > to have managed to toatly muck up the ports dayabases :0( > > > > > > > > I'm getting things like this when I run portupgrade: > > > > > > > > ! (pgaccess-0.98.6) (missing origin) > > > > ! (acroread-3.02) (missing origin) > > > > ! (netscape-wrapper-2000.07.07) (missing origin) > > > > > > Whichever way you go you'll have to either reinstall these ports by > > > hand or tell portupgrade where they live in the ports tree (see > > > e.g. the -o flag to portupgrade). You installed them before the ports > > > collection started recording the location of the port used to install > > > the package, so you can rebuild the databases as much as you like, but > > > it won't fix it :) > > > > > > AH, that explains what's goin on. > > > > Is there a way to do this without spending a whole day or so doing things > > manually? > > I told you above how you'll have to go about solving it. It shouldn't > take more than a couple of minutes. Well I spent about 3 hours yesterday afternoon filling in package names to pkgdb -F's prompts, and I still can't get portupfrade to work :-) What do I need to delete to just start from scratch, and build this by had? Is portdb -F the correct way to be building it by hand? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
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