Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 11:51:51 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Oddball package and portupgrade Message-ID: <200405141151.51127.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY16-F104HJS3xGdw800021d3e@hotmail.com> References: <BAY16-F104HJS3xGdw800021d3e@hotmail.com>
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On Friday 14 May 2004 11:37 am, Lord Sith wrote: > I have a non standard package installed on a FreeBSD box. It is the > FreeBSD version of Adaptec's RAID management software. > > I want to use portupgrade to manage the other packages and ports on > that same server however portupgrade gets very upset about this > non-standard package and refuses to run any command: > > myserver# portupgrade -an > ---> Session started at: Fri, 14 May 2004 12:34:27 -0600 > adptfbsd_304: Not in due form: <name>-<version> > ---> Session ended at: Fri, 14 May 2004 12:34:27 -0600 (consumed > 00:00:00) > > I tried following the instructions in the man page by putting in a > "+IGNOREME" into the package's directory (/var/db/pkg/adptfbsd_304/) > but I still get the same error. > > How can I get portupgrade to ignore this installed package? /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf has the following comment. # To completely hide the existence of a package, put a dummy file # named "+IGNOREME" in the package directory. You might try adding that to /var/db/pkg for it and see what it does. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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