Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 19:06:29 -0800 From: Sean Ellis <sellis@telus.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: "Michael C. Shultz" <reso3w83@verizon.net> Subject: Re: upgrade software with no package db Message-ID: <20050124030629.GF92435@telus.net> In-Reply-To: <200501231652.32539.reso3w83@verizon.net> References: <20050124003641.GD92435@telus.net> <200501231652.32539.reso3w83@verizon.net>
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On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 04:52:29PM -0800, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > On Sunday 23 January 2005 04:36 pm, Sean Ellis wrote: > > I'm looking moving to a newer Mysql version on a machine where the > > database of installed packages has been trashed. > > > If you can pkg_add -rf to force installation and get it recorded > in /var/db/pkg/mysql... then running portmanager -u will get the > dependencies straightened out, correctly registered and it will likely > rebuild mysql from ports too. > > portmanager is under /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager portmanager Thanks for that tip, I'll look into that. -- Sean
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