On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 11:52:32AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:07:54AM -0500, stan wrote: > > I'n updating a bunch of older (around 4.2) machines. On ne of them I seem > > to have managed to toatly muck up the ports dayabases :0( > > > > I'm getting things like this when I run portupgrade: > > > > ! (pgaccess-0.98.6) (missing origin) > > ! (acroread-3.02) (missing origin) > > ! (netscape-wrapper-2000.07.07) (missing origin) > > Whichever way you go you'll have to either reinstall these ports by > hand or tell portupgrade where they live in the ports tree (see > e.g. the -o flag to portupgrade). You installed them before the ports > collection started recording the location of the port used to install > the package, so you can rebuild the databases as much as you like, but > it won't fix it :)
AH, that explains what's goin on. Is there a way to do this without spending a whole day or so doing things manually? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"