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Date:      9 May 2013 23:25:48 -0000
From:      "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        rfg@tristatelogic.com
Subject:   Re: WANTED: Tool to verify installed package/port consistancy
Message-ID:  <20130509232548.42838.qmail@joyce.lan>
In-Reply-To: <58355.1368136823@server1.tristatelogic.com>

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I expect the reason you won't find a port verifier is that the usual
way to recover from a situation like yours is to reinstall them all:

# portupgrade --all --force

This might take longer than trying to verify them, but it has the
advantage of not needing a lot of attention (use -DBATCH to skip
config steps) and when you're done, the packages have all been updated
and fixed.

Doing a general port verifier is a pain because the scripts called from
make install can run arbitrary programs.

R's,
John




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