Date: 23 May 2005 09:30:47 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Bob Perry <rperry@gti.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Confused with Refuse Message-ID: <44sm0e133s.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <200505221429.58567.rperry@gti.net> References: <200505221429.58567.rperry@gti.net>
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Bob Perry <rperry@gti.net> writes: > About to synch up the entire source tree with RELENG_5_4_0_RELEASE. Earlier I > created a refuse file, (/var/db/sup/refuse), when I upgraded my doc and ports > collection in 5.3 but remember reading somewhere that a refuse file was not > necessarily recommended when updating an entire source tree. Is that still > the case? You may not be able to build your own INDEX, and dependency-tracking packages may get confused if the INDEX doesn't match the installed ports, but things won't necessarily break. But you're on your own; please don't report problems unless you know they occur with a fully updated tree.
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