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Date:      Fri, 13 Apr 2007 22:28:21 -0400
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        "Andrew Falanga" <af300wsm@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: how does one get portupgrade back
Message-ID:  <20070413222821.9b4b3b1e.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <340a29540704131919ka8d6800k81776939dc5d2f7@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <340a29540704131919ka8d6800k81776939dc5d2f7@mail.gmail.com>

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"Andrew Falanga" <af300wsm@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> HI,
> 
> I was going through cvsup and portupgrade since I just got broadband into my
> home.  I had forgotten that some time ago I had already installed
> portupgrade and went to install it again.  I went to /usr/ports/sysutils/
> and found to my astonishment that the directory "portupgrade" no longer
> exists.  That's when I found out that I had already installed it at some
> time in the past by doing "which portupgrade".  The only reason I'm asking
> about this is because the portupgrade program complained that it couldn't
> change directory to the directory listed above.  So, I installed
> cvsup-without-gui and upgraded my ports collection (I actally did this
> before checking for portupgrade).
> 
> So, how should I go about restoring that directory?

Read /usr/ports/UPDATING before doing ports maintenance in the future.

In this case, ports tools have moved to a new category in
/usr/ports/ports-mgmnt

-- 
Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com



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