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Date:      Fri, 17 May 2002 19:59:42 -0400
From:      Brian Minard <bminard@flatfoot.ca>
To:        pjklist@ekahuna.com
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Portupgrade / pkgdb question
Message-ID:  <15589.39278.702404.618292@yop.flatfoot.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20020517224745963.AAA345@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com>
References:  <20020517132846380.AAA341@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> <20020517224745963.AAA345@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com>

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On May 17, 2002, Philip J. Koenig wrote:
 > Also, why would simply redirecting standard output to a file avoid 
 > portupgrade running anyway?  I would think that would just send the 
 > runtime messages to a file?  Aren't you thinking of pkg_version -c?  
 > Pkg_version appears to be able to determine versions without a valid 
 > "origin", unlike portversion/portupgrade.

Yes, use the -Oc option with pkg_version and take a close look at the
generated script, if you choose to use it.  I think you need the -O
option to get around the checks for the origin.

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