From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 4 05:07:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E080A16A4CE for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 05:07:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail3.panix.com (mail3.panix.com [166.84.1.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C6EA43D49 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 05:07:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stanb@panix.com) Received: from panix.com (brillig.panix.com [166.84.1.76]) by mail3.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF11F98657 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 08:07:55 -0500 (EST) Received: from teddy.fas.com (pcp01010374pcs.mplsnt01.sc.comcast.net [68.58.176.69]) by panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A43682AA48 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 08:07:55 -0500 (EST) Received: from stan by teddy.fas.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AysZu-00080U-00 for ; Thu, 04 Mar 2004 08:07:54 -0500 Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 08:07:54 -0500 From: stan To: Free BSD Questions list Message-ID: <20040304130754.GA30619@teddy.fas.com> Mail-Followup-To: Free BSD Questions list Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Editor: gVim X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux X-Kernel-Version: 2.4.23 X-Uptime: 08:01:48 up 3 days, 20:37, 2 users, load average: 0.08, 0.07, 0.02 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: Stan Brown Subject: How can I rebuild prots databases? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 13:07:58 -0000 I'n updating a bunch of older (around 4.2) machines. On ne of them I seem to have managed to toatly muck up the ports dayabases :0( I'm getting things like this when I run portupgrade: ! (pgaccess-0.98.6) (missing origin) ! (acroread-3.02) (missing origin) ! (netscape-wrapper-2000.07.07) (missing origin) I think the best plan is to completly rebuild from scratch the databases that contain available ports, and the ports that are installed on this machine. I've tried various combinations of pkgdb -F and pkgd -Uu. to no avail. Can I just remove all of these databases, and rebuiold them from scratch? If so, how do I acomplish this? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin