BTW, Dru was talking about ''pkgdb -fu''. Different command, and lower-case
"f". And that was for when the *packages* database gets messed up. At which
point you'll probably have thoughts along that line in your head ... :)
I just had a look at the pkgdb manpage. My bad. It is upper-case "f"
Adam J Richardson wrote:
Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
During my first few days with FreeBSD, however, I used to run ''portsdb
-Fu''. My understanding is that that would fetch the INDEX-6 and update
INDEX-6.db (since I am on FreeBSD 6.x) but I don't see why I should do this
coz the INDEX files a
Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
During my first few days with FreeBSD, however, I used to run ''portsdb
-Fu''. My understanding is that that would fetch the INDEX-6 and update
INDEX-6.db (since I am on FreeBSD 6.x) but I don't see why I should do
this coz the INDEX files are updated when I update the
Thanks for your story. The only reason we used -U was that we were not
sure what they meant got special macros. The man page for portsdb
status that you only use -U if you have special macros in
/etc/make.conf. All we have in there is version information so I think
that does not apply to use.
On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, Arend P. van der Veen wrote:
The approach that I had been using was:
/usr/local/bin/cvsup -L 0 /usr/sup/supfile
/usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu
This had worked great until the emacs22 update. Now portsdb crashes due to
the emacs entry in /etc/make.conf. However, I see very
