Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 15:39:08 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: CARTER Anthony <a.carter@cordis.lu> Cc: questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: portsdb fails on perl Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0304041537441.14291-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <200304041543.23633.a.carter@intrasoft.lu>
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On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, CARTER Anthony wrote: > This is probably also due to a problem in recursive looped dependencies in > Xft... > > However, a little question. What is portsdb, I known pkgdb, and portsupgrade, > but what does portsbd do? pkgdb deals with the _installed_ packages/ports. portsdb deals with all the _available_ ports - that is, it's an index of everything under /usr/ports. Stuff like portversion basically compares the versions in pkgdb against the versions of corresponding ports in portsdb. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Hang on, wasn't he holding a wooden parrot? No! It was a porcelain owl.
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