Re: Moving to new PC

2006-09-19 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Monday 18 September 2006 16:53, you wrote: From: Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] the update for today is, that it is still going, but there has been quite a bit of delay while the ports stops on the knobs screen. each time i see one, i hit the 'ok', but this is causing the

Re: Moving to new PC

2006-09-19 Thread Gerard Seibert
Jonathan Horne wrote: well, i have eventually come to an error, at the 89% mark. from /var/log/portmanager.log: Tue Sep 19 09:32:28 2006 bsd.port.mk /usr/ports/Mk corrupt unable to restored from back up cd

Re: Moving to new PC

2006-09-18 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Sunday 17 September 2006 16:04, Jonathan Horne wrote: On Sunday 17 September 2006 12:44, White Hat wrote: --- Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] sounds interesting enough. if you will supply the portmanager command syntax, ill supply the test computer, and post the

Re: Moving to new PC

2006-09-18 Thread RW
On Sunday 17 September 2006 14:35, White Hat wrote: I am planning on migrating to a new PC in the near future, perhaps after FBSD 6.2 is released. I was therefore wondering if the following scenario was possible. 1) Tar up the /var/db/pkg directory on old system 2) Untar the collection into

Re: Moving to new PC

2006-09-18 Thread White Hat
From: Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] the update for today is, that it is still going, but there has been quite a bit of delay while the ports stops on the knobs screen. each time i see one, i hit the 'ok', but this is causing the obvious delays. other than that, so far, no errors or

Moving to new PC

2006-09-17 Thread White Hat
I am planning on migrating to a new PC in the near future, perhaps after FBSD 6.2 is released. I was therefore wondering if the following scenario was possible. 1) Tar up the /var/db/pkg directory on old system 2) Untar the collection into the same location on new PC 3) Run portsnap to get an

Re: Moving to new PC

2006-09-17 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Sunday 17 September 2006 08:35, White Hat wrote: I am planning on migrating to a new PC in the near future, perhaps after FBSD 6.2 is released. I was therefore wondering if the following scenario was possible. 1) Tar up the /var/db/pkg directory on old system 2) Untar the collection into

Re: Moving to new PC

2006-09-17 Thread White Hat
--- Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] sounds interesting enough. if you will supply the portmanager command syntax, ill supply the test computer, and post the results. I guess I would want to run portmanager in a force update mode. portmanager -u -f -l -y should do

Re: Moving to new PC

2006-09-17 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Sunday 17 September 2006 12:44, White Hat wrote: --- Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] sounds interesting enough. if you will supply the portmanager command syntax, ill supply the test computer, and post the results. I guess I would want to run portmanager in a force