Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 13:39:05 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Subject: Re: Portupgrade problem Message-ID: <200404091339.05910.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <200404091331.37765.kstewart@owt.com> References: <4076527F.1060902@users.sourceforge.net> <Pine.LNX.4.58.0404092205270.6280@Tempo.Update.UU.SE> <200404091331.37765.kstewart@owt.com>
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On Friday 09 April 2004 01:31 pm, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Friday 09 April 2004 01:08 pm, Andreas Davour wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Gary Kline wrote: > > > If I can offer a practical tip re cvsu'ing and running 'pkgdb > > > -Uu', why not script it and run it out of cron? That's how I > > > make sure tht my ports tree is neat nd clean. > > > > Well, when I have succeeded in doing a portupgrade by hand I think > > that might be an option. I must feel confident that it works before > > I dare script it by cron. > > > > One thing confuses me, though. I refers to 'pkgdb -Uu', but the man > > page for that program don't mention a -U flag. There is another > > program called 'portsdb' that have both a -u and a -U flag. Which > > one am I supposed to use. Both? > > You figured out the right one. I frequently mix the 2 up but only one > has the -uU option :). I use make index instead of portsdb -u but > portsdb now uses make index to build INDEX[-5]. So my way isn't > different any more. One more correction. It is portsdb -U to build the INDEX. I do use portsdb -u to build INDEX.db. Kent > > I also forgot to add that I use a cronjob to do the cvsup but I do it > twice a day. > > Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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