portupgrade issue

[parv]

-stable list is removed as i think this belongs to either -questions
and/or -ports.


in message <1054169492.968.35.camel at zircon>,
wrote Joe Kelsey thusly...
>
> It turns out that the culprit is my /usr/sup/refuse file.  I was
> following the suggestion in the Handbook to have my refuse file
> include the unnecessary languages.  However, this has the
> undesirable interaction with portupgrade to cause the dreaded
> 'deorigin' error.

I have used only "pkgdb -F", and thus "portupgrade -[U]u", from the
portupgrade tools.  That may be why i haven't experienced your
problem w/ my ~490 lines strong refuse file...

  http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/unix/cf/freebsd/refuse.ports


...While making index, it helps immensely that ports that are being
refused do not have corresponding directores in existence.
Otherwise, one would get "no entry" error; "non-existent --
dependency list incomplete" error can be safely ignored, IMO.

I did try once to build/install port(s) via portupgrade, but the end
result was more work than otherwise.  I haven't bothered w/ or
trusted portupgrade to maintain anything other than install ports
database ever since.


> I removed my refuse file, reluctantly did a cvsup to download
> *all* of the languages, even though I have no way to use or
> understand any of them ... Very frustrating and totally
> unnecessary.

Oh crap!  I am truly sorry to hear that! :(


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