Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:55:10 -0600 From: <apredoehl@go.mailsvc.com> To: zope@2012.vi Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: (no subject) Message-ID: <web-573050583@mailsvc.com>
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On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:14:10 -0400 beno wrote: > >Gerard Seibert wrote: >> To update portmanager, assuming you have an >> up-to-date port system: >> >> cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager >> male install & make clean >> >Well, here's exactly what I'm doing: > >cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager > >make install >make clean >/usr/local/bin/portmanager -u -f -l -y > >and then it proceeds to go back into its infinite >loop!!! This is what I'm trying to avoid!!! I >presume the reason it does that is because it >HASN'T upgraded and is STILL at version 0.2.0_1 Caution: I am new at answering questions, so someone please chime in if I make a mistake. beno, here is a guess: the reason this is happening is that your ports tree (that is, /usr/ports/*) is probably old. The version numbers, checksums, and much more, for EVERY port is stored in the ports tree. Unless you update your ports tree, just deinstalling and reinstalling a port won't make it any newer. There are a few ways to update your ports tree. Chapter 4 of the handbook describes a few ways. Personally I like to use cvsup(1). If you use cvsup(1) you can either update your entire ports tree or just part of it. Here is text straight out of the handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html) "...As root, copy /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile to a new location, such as /root or your home directory. Edit ports-supfile. Change CHANGE_THIS.FreeBSD.org to a CVSup server near you. See CVSup Mirrors (Section A.5.7) for a complete listing of mirror sites. And now to run cvsup, use the following: # cvsup -L 2 /root/ports-supfile " This might take awhile. You'll see your ports tree getting files added, changed, and removed. After it is done, THEN try deinstalling, building, and reinstalling portmanager, or portupgrade, or whatever. If you don't want to modify your whole ports tree, you can edit ports-supfile a bit more and restrict the changes to just the sysutils directory -- look inside the file for helpful comments on how to do this.
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