pkgdb+portsdb

Kevin Kinsey kdk at daleco.biz
Thu May 19 09:45:34 PDT 2005


Lowell Gilbert wrote:

>Brett Wiggins <caleb at m-net.arbornet.org> writes:
>
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>>  I have just done a clean install of 5.2.1 - RELEASE. The only programs I
>>have installed are cvsup and portupgrade so I can upgrade my system and
>>ports to 5.4 - STABLE. I have finished the upgrade to 5.4 - STABLE and am
>>moving onto upgrading ports, I included ports-all tag=. in my supfile to
>>get the latest ports tree. What I am unsure about is which command I run
>>first (after backing up /var/db/pkg) pkgdb -F or portsdb -Uu.
>>    
>>
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>The latter.  The portupgrade tools will tell you if you need to do the former.
>  
>

Just to add one for your personal understanding, or the archives or whatnot:

Dru steps it through:

        http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html


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Kevin Kinsey


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