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Date:      Sat, 18 May 2002 09:53:12 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de>
Cc:        Brian Minard <bminard@flatfoot.ca>, pjklist@ekahuna.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Portupgrade / pkgdb question
Message-ID:  <3CE686F8.4070909@owt.com>
References:  <20020517051517645.AAA373@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> <15588.63940.774526.122365@yop.flatfoot.ca> <3CE67EC7.56AE9A57@liwing.de>

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Jens Rehsack wrote:

>> > But there is no interactive search or anything to help find the
>> > correct path to input to correct this problem when running "pkgdb -
>> > F", so does this mean that I have to sit down, manually find and make
>> > a list of all the modern equivalents/locations of all 200 installed
>> > packages, then manually type in each path for each old package during
>> > "pkgdb -F" before I can effectively use portupgrade?
>> >
>>
>>Try portsdb -Uu.  The recommendation is that you run this command
>>after you update your ports collection.  I run this command after each
>>cvsup of the ports collection I perform.
>>
> 
> It will be done by "make index" in /usr/ports, too.


That only remakes /usr/ports/INDEX and the portupgrade set also needs 
INDEX.db. If you use portsdb -uU, it remakes both of them.


> 
> Jens


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Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

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