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Date:      Sun, 7 Nov 2010 19:49:59 +0000
From:      Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk>
To:        "Ron (Lists)" <rg.lists@rzweb.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portupgrade fails to run or do anything
Message-ID:  <20101107194959.GA99311@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <0e83f79bc4b86b72841763338a63e94e@flabnapple.net>
References:  <0e83f79bc4b86b72841763338a63e94e@flabnapple.net>

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On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 09:21:22AM -0800, Ron (Lists) wrote:
>
> I'm trying to upgrade my ports and I can't get portupgrade to do 
> anything.  I type 'sudo portupgrade apache' (or any package) and all I 
> get back is a command prompt.  No error or any other message.  
> portversion seems to work correctly, showing my out of date ports, etc.
> 
> Running portupgrade with -F doesn't help at all.  I've also noticed 
> that tab-expansion isn't working like it used to on the port names, so 
> that makes me wonder if the database is screwed up.  I've tried running 
> pkgdb and it just returns like portupgrade.  Running portsdb to try and 
> rebuild the index doesn't help.
> 
> Any ideas?  I'm perplexed and Google is no help.
> 
> Thanks
> 

Give portupgrade the -v arg to get some debugging information. E.g:

# sudo portupgrade -v apache\*


Regards,

-- 

 Frank

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