Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 08:38:28 -0400 From: Brian Minard <bminard@flatfoot.ca> To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Portupgrade / pkgdb question Message-ID: <15588.63940.774526.122365@yop.flatfoot.ca> In-Reply-To: <20020517051517645.AAA373@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> References: <20020517051517645.AAA373@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com>
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On May 16, 2002, Philip J. Koenig wrote: > My understanding is that "origin" is the path to the port in the > ports directory - ie if the port is /usr/ports/editors/joe, the > origin is "editors/joe". > That's my understanding of how it works. > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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