Date: 04 Dec 2001 19:51:35 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Nathan Mace <nmace85@yahoo.com> Cc: "Freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: portupgrade question Message-ID: <hebshejpdk.she@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <200112042247.RAA06036@uce55.uchaswv.edu> References: <200112042247.RAA06036@uce55.uchaswv.edu>
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Nathan Mace <nmace85@yahoo.com> writes: > i just ran portupgrade on the meta port of kde-2.2 to upgrade from 2.2.1 to > 2.2.2. it took it like 15 seconds...and it didn't even d/l or compile > anything!!! i can't see that anything got upgrade excpt the version number > of the kde meta port. whats up with that? any ideas? please cc me the > replies If you read the man pages of "portsdb" and "pkgdepfix" you'll see some warnings about running those tools occasionally (?) to keep the package database in shape. (What's up with that?) And, IIRC, that you do it before using portupgrade. Life on the (b)leading edge... P.S. portsdb takes a very long time (30-60 min?) on my 500 MHz system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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