Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 14:49:09 -0400 From: Doug Lee <dgl@dlee.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Is there a way to clean up the ports database without a lot of manual intervention? Message-ID: <20041002184908.GB564@kirk.dlee.org>
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I have reason to believe I've made some mistakes trying to run pkgdb -F to clean up a couple ports trees on different FreeBSD systems I run. I confess I've never fully understood how to answer some of the prompts during that process. Also though, my ports tree was formed before portupgrade/portinstall were available, so I have some ports that were installed via a simple "make install," some by portinstall/portupgrade, some I installed first with "make install" and then tried to upgrade with portupgrade, etc. Is there a process I can run that will make the database consistent again so I can install/upgrade ports without error? I don't care if it takes two days to run. :-) I also know I may be asking the impossible here, but I figure it doesn't hurt to try. Please email responses directly to me so they don't get lost in traffic. -- Doug Lee dgl@dlee.org http://www.dlee.org Bartimaeus Group doug@bartsite.com http://www.bartsite.com "If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry." {African}
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