How can I rebuild prots databases?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 04:36:21PM -0500, stan wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 11:52:32AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:07:54AM -0500, 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)
> > 
> > Whichever way you go you'll have to either reinstall these ports by
> > hand or tell portupgrade where they live in the ports tree (see
> > e.g. the -o flag to portupgrade).  You installed them before the ports
> > collection started recording the location of the port used to install
> > the package, so you can rebuild the databases as much as you like, but
> > it won't fix it :)
> 
> 
> AH, that explains what's goin on.
> 
> Is there a way to do this without spending a whole day or so doing things
> manually?

I told you above how you'll have to go about solving it.  It shouldn't
take more than a couple of minutes.

Kris
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