Reparing FreeBSD ports tree.

[Chris Hodgins]

Michael C. Shultz wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 January 2005 07:44 am, you wrote:
> 
>>Michael C. Shultz wrote:
>>
>>>On Tuesday 25 January 2005 12:58 am, Christian Tischler wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi everyone.
>>>>My primary question is how to repair a broken ports tree. I did a
>>>>portupgrade to CVS FreeBSD 4.9 RELEASE, and now my ports tree ist
>>>>all screwed up. There are tons of wrong/failed/whatever
>>>>dependencies and some ports wont  work.
>>>>How can I repair this problem without an complete reinstall of the
>>>>system? I have a lot of services running for my local net and a
>>>>huge amount of configurations.
>>>>For exsample when I do /usr/ports/make index I get:
>>>>----------
>>>># make index
>>>>Generating INDEX - please wait..apsfilter-7.2.5_5:
>>>>"/usr/ports/print/acroread5" non-existent -- dependency list
>>>>incomplete ===> print/apsfilter failed
>>>>*** Error code 1
>>>>1 error
>>>
>>>In /usr/ports/MOVED,
>>>
>>>"print/acroread5|print/acroread|2004-12-23|last Acrobat Reader port
>>>remaining"
>>>
>>>which means this directory has been moved.
>>>
>>>My advice is to run sysutils/portmanager and NEVER ever run pkgdb
>>>-F if you want to keep your dependencies from getting messed up.
>>>
>>>portmanager will automatically remove your installed
>>>print/acroread5 because it has been removed from cvs, it does not
>>>use INDEX files so they will become a non issue for you as well.
>>>
>>> The only way to protect your "large amount of configurations" is
>>>to back them up!  You never know when a port is going to over write
>>>a configuration file so if they are real important to you, back
>>>them up.
>>>
>>>-Mike
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>>
>>Is portmanager now the generally accepted way of keeping your ports
>>updated?
> 
> 
> There are people who prefer portmanager, but many have never tried it 
> and still recommend portupgrade.  Here is a link with some information
> and comments about portmanager.
> 
> http://bsdnews.com/index.php3?story_start=5
> 
> 
>>Also, what's this "extract" thing I have seen mentioned in 
>>relation to this?
>>
>>Chris
> 
> 
> What extract thing? Be more specific please.
> 
> -Mike
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Thanks for the link.  I have been using portupgrade for a while now and 
find it very usable.  I shall give portmanager a shot on my other system.

Don't worry about the extract thing.  I did some research and found what 
I was after....it did have nothing to do with portmanager. :)

Chris