portupgrade: installed package "succeeds port" ?

[Jim Trigg]

--On Tuesday, May 6, 2003 12:10 PM +1200 Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz> 
wrote:

> On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 08:26:54AM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
> [...]
>> Anyway, when I install from ports with portupgrade, I get packages
>> listed as follows:
>>
>> mplayer-gtk-0.90.0.110_1    >  succeeds port (port has 0.90.0.110)
>> portupgrade-20030427        >  succeeds port (port has 20030308_2)
>> ruby-1.6.8.2003.04.19       >  succeeds port (port has 1.6.8.2003.01.19)
>> ruby-bdb1-0.1.9             >  succeeds port (port has 0.1.8)
>> ruby-shim-ruby18-1.8.0.p2.2003.04.19  >  succeeds port (port has
>> 1.8.0.p2)
>>
>> I'm sure I am in sync with the port, neverless it says that my installed
>> packages succeeds the port. Is that a bug in portupgrade package?
>
> You need to run "portsdb -Uu" after you cvsup the ports tree.
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Actually, I've found that "cd /usr/ports; make index" is more reliable than 
"portsdb -U".

Jim
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