Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:32:05 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Robert Inder <robert@interactive.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portsnap and port versions Message-ID: <45CDBB45.3000906@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <f511wky43jv.fsf@3lg.org>
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Robert Inder wrote:
> This morning, I tried "portsnap fetch" and "portsnap upgrade"...
>
> Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found.
> Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap1.FreeBSD.org... done.
>
> But although it reported 3 metadata patches and 91 patches, it didn't
> change the "portupgrade" port: it is still 2.1.3.3.
Is your ports INDEX file up to date? I believe portsnap should provide
you with an updated INDEX automatically, or you can use 'make fetchindex'
to grab something recently built or (blowing my own trumpet here) there's
the ports-mgmt/p5-FreeBSD-Portindex port if you'ld like to build your own.
To see if your index is out of date, compare the output of:
cd /usr/ports
make search name=portindex
with
cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade
make -V PKGNAME
The latst version (as of this morning) is portupgrade-2.2.2_4,2
Also note that the bug you encountered with portupgrade saying:
"missing key: categories: Cannot read the portsdb!" was compounded by
moving the portupgrade port from sysutils/portupgrade to
ports-mgmt/portupgrade. That has caused some confusion to various
tools. The fix is fairly simple:
# pkgdb -F
# pkg_delete portupgrade-\*
# cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade
# make install
Then use portupgrade as usual to upgrade whatever else you want to.
Cheers,
Matthew
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