On Friday 14 May 2004 11:37 am, Lord Sith wrote: > I have a non standard package installed on a FreeBSD box. It is the > FreeBSD version of Adaptec's RAID management software. > > I want to use portupgrade to manage the other packages and ports on > that same server however portupgrade gets very upset about this > non-standard package and refuses to run any command: > > myserver# portupgrade -an > ---> Session started at: Fri, 14 May 2004 12:34:27 -0600 > adptfbsd_304: Not in due form: <name>-<version> > ---> Session ended at: Fri, 14 May 2004 12:34:27 -0600 (consumed > 00:00:00) > > I tried following the instructions in the man page by putting in a > "+IGNOREME" into the package's directory (/var/db/pkg/adptfbsd_304/) > but I still get the same error. > > How can I get portupgrade to ignore this installed package?
/usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf has the following comment. # To completely hide the existence of a package, put a dummy file # named "+IGNOREME" in the package directory. You might try adding that to /var/db/pkg for it and see what it does. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"