On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 05:06:29PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 04:36:21PM -0500, stan wrote:
> > 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?
>
> I told you above how you'll have to go about solving it. It shouldn't
> take more than a couple of minutes.
Well I spent about 3 hours yesterday afternoon filling in package names to pkgdb -F's
prompts,
and I still can't get portupfrade to work :-)
What do I need to delete to just start from scratch, and build this by had?
Is portdb -F the correct way to be building it by hand?
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