Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 22:46:31 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to update ports for portmaster? Message-ID: <20190627224631.32213beb@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <2135741875.940696.1561667660482@mail.yahoo.com> References: <2135741875.940696.1561667660482.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <2135741875.940696.1561667660482@mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 20:34:20 +0000 (UTC) Ben Brink via freebsd-questions wrote: > Hi, > > While trying to install git with: > > portmaster -a > portmaster -D --no-confirm devel/git > > This error occurs: I don't know anything about this particular problem, and I've not used postmaster much, but from when I used portupgrade I found that most build problems that aren't flagged in UPDATING are fixed in a day or so, so the first thing to do is make sure your ports tree is updated. > > I've also tried: > portsnap update > # but it complains that I need to portsnap extract also.. And yet, I > don't want to create voluminous storage.. and have two ports > management systems in use. You can't use ports without a ports tree. portmaster uses the tree, portsnap is one way to update the tree, they do different things. And you can't use portsnap without doing an initial extract.
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