Confused with Refuse

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Mon May 23 06:30:49 PDT 2005


Bob Perry <rperry at gti.net> writes:

> About to synch up the entire source tree with RELENG_5_4_0_RELEASE.  Earlier I 
> created a refuse file, (/var/db/sup/refuse), when I upgraded my doc and ports 
> collection in 5.3 but remember reading somewhere that a refuse file was not 
> necessarily recommended when updating an entire source tree.  Is that still 
> the case?

You may not be able to build your own INDEX, and dependency-tracking
packages may get confused if the INDEX doesn't match the installed
ports, but things won't necessarily break.  But you're on your own;
please don't report problems unless you know they occur with a fully
updated tree.


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