Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 16:36:21 -0500 From: stan <stanb@panix.com> To: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How can I rebuild prots databases? Message-ID: <20040304213621.GA14544@teddy.fas.com> In-Reply-To: <20040304195232.GA75417@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20040304130754.GA30619@teddy.fas.com> <20040304195232.GA75417@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 11:52:32AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:07:54AM -0500, stan wrote: > > 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) > > Whichever way you go you'll have to either reinstall these ports by > hand or tell portupgrade where they live in the ports tree (see > e.g. the -o flag to portupgrade). You installed them before the ports > collection started recording the location of the port used to install > the package, so you can rebuild the databases as much as you like, but > it won't fix it :) AH, that explains what's goin on. Is there a way to do this without spending a whole day or so doing things manually? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
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