From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 1 08:33:46 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABBB816A46B for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2007 08:33:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98AFD13C480 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2007 08:33:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 803D81A4D88; Fri, 1 Jun 2007 01:34:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [192.168.1.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E096D5119F; Fri, 1 Jun 2007 04:33:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D128EC1D6; Fri, 1 Jun 2007 04:33:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 04:33:45 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Alexander Leidinger Message-ID: <20070601083345.GA48323@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <200706010521.l515LE4N074880@harmony.bsdimp.com> <20070601085750.ang0g5aqp0kg8c8k@webmail.leidinger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070601085750.ang0g5aqp0kg8c8k@webmail.leidinger.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Warner Losh Subject: Re: Uggg! X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:33:46 -0000 On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 08:57:50AM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting Warner Losh (from Thu, 31 May 2007 > 23:21:15 -0600 (MDT)): > > >my portupgrade -a died in the middle. Well, the laptop in my battery died > > A laptop in the battery... wow, is the decharging now computer optimized? > ;-) > > >at a bad time. all of my +CONTENTS files are gone. Is there any hope? > > Hard solution: > - get your ports in /usr/ports down to the corrsponding installed version > - "make install -DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER" each > > Easy solution: > - let your ports as is > - force an install > - pray that not much files have changed > - "pkgdb -F" and let it remove the old ports for those where more > than one exists > > Collaborative solution: > - post the pkgname of each > - let people here send the +CONTENTS files to you Download the packages from the FTP site and either reinstall them or extract the +CONTENTS. This will work best if you don't have local make.conf customizations, otherwise you will see variance. Kris