Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:40:08 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to Upgrade Portupgrade? Message-ID: <44hcr2x7ev.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <4631F760.80809@daleco.biz> (Kevin Kinsey's message of "Fri\, 27 Apr 2007 08\:15\:12 -0500") References: <4631EB20.20808@mykitchentable.net> <4631F760.80809@daleco.biz>
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Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> writes: > Drew Tomlinson wrote: > >> So this seems like updating portupgrade should be trivial but I am >> stuck. Suggestions appreciated. > > Yeah, I missed the note on this one, too. Not the change note, but > I don't recall seeing the instructions on what to do about it. > Tried deinstalling portupgrade and reinstalling? The catch-22, > of course, is that you can't "cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade" > in order to `make deinstall`. However, this might work (and I believe > it's the kludge I used to get around the issue): > > $ rm -rf /var/db/pkg/portupgrade* > $ cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade > $ make install clean A little safer would be to replace the first line with "pkg_delete portupgrade*". If you're not going to go with the "portupgrade -o" solution that someone already posted.
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