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Date:      Sun, 7 Nov 2010 21:51:59 -0700 (MST)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        "Ron (Lists)" <rg.lists@rzweb.com>
Cc:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portupgrade fails to run or do anything
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1011072148510.74543@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <18ca79b6ed80156a7f03123109e57adf@flabnapple.net>
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On Sun, 7 Nov 2010, Ron (Lists) wrote:

> None of these suggestions help.  I have never had to put www/ in front
> of the port name before.

It's not needed.

> The tab expansion is handled by bash-completion as used to be smart 
> enough to know the command I was typing and could auto-complete port 
> names, but no longer, which is why I suspect that I have a screwed up 
> database.

No, more likely your path changed and left out /var/db/pkg.  This is not 
needed anyway, since the pkg_name is a glob:
   portupgrade -r apache
will upgrade all ports starting with "apache".  The -r is something I 
suggest using regularly with portupgrade.



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