Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 06:24:11 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> Cc: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>, FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Rebuilding my ports area Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1507240621230.91154@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20150724114942.GC27865@albert.catwhisker.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1507241707150.880@aneurin.horsfall.org> <20150724114942.GC27865@albert.catwhisker.org>
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On Fri, 24 Jul 2015, David Wolfskill wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 05:21:07PM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote: >> FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p20 (GENERIC) #0: Tue Jul 21 19:29:33 UTC 2015 >> >> Having completely scragged my ports area following various changes to >> pkg/pkgng/etc, and being unable to "sysinstall" it from CD (not found for >> some reason) or via FTP (not found on server etc), I found a pristine copy >> of ports.txz and unpacked it (sigh, yet another compression scheme), after >> renaming the old directory. >> >> Anyway, what do I do now? Assume that many ports have been installed, and >> that the databases etc are probably a dog's breakfast, per the conflicts >> that I have posted here earlier. If it helps, I have a list of those >> ports that were installed, and hopefully the dependencies will be taken >> care of automagically. >> .... > > Near the bottom of portmaster(8), there is a procedure entitled "Using > portmaster to do a complete reinstallation of all your ports". I have > used that procedure (with some variations) over the years -- e.g., > migrating from 8.x -> 9.x, then 9.x to 10.x; more recently, I extracted > bits of it to migrate from stable/10 i386 -> stable/10 amd64 [gory > details at > <http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/FreeBSD/convert_i386_amd64.html>]. Updated portmaster man page procedure here: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/rebuilding-all-ports-with-portmaster.51210/
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