portupgrade with ro /usr/ports ?

[Stijn Hoop]

On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 11:19:43PM -0600, BSD wrote:
> I'm trying to use portupgrade (arg -ausvyD) to upgrade my installed
> ports. However, since I am nfs mounting /usr/ports from another FreeBSD
> machine readonly, and with WRKDIRPREFIX=/usr/portswork and
> DISTDIR=/usr/portsdist set in /etc/make.conf, portupgrade doesn't seem
> to like that.
> 
> Is it possible to get portupgrade to work with a ro /usr/ports? If so,
> how?

You need to set PORTS_INDEX and PORTS_DBDIR in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf
to e.g. /var/db. There are comments in the top of that file.

HTH,

--Stijn

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