How can I rebuild prots databases?

[Kent Stewart]

On Thursday 04 March 2004 05:07 am, stan wrote:
> I'n updating a bunch of older (around 4.2) machines. On ne of them I
> seem to have managed to toatly muck up the ports dayabases :0(
>
> I'm getting things like this when I run portupgrade:
>
> !  (pgaccess-0.98.6)    (missing origin)
> !  (acroread-3.02)      (missing origin)
> !  (netscape-wrapper-2000.07.07)        (missing origin)
>
> I think the best plan is to completly rebuild from scratch the
> databases that contain available ports, and the ports that are
> installed on this machine. I've tried various combinations of pkgdb
> -F and pkgd -Uu. to no avail.
>
> Can I just remove all of these databases, and rebuiold them from
> scratch? If so, how do I acomplish this?

Try portsdb -fu but I think I would manually instally ruby-1.8, 
ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2, and portupgrade first.

Kent

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