How to Upgrade Portupgrade?
Kevin Kinsey
kdk at daleco.biz
Fri Apr 27 14:17:11 UTC 2007
Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Kevin Kinsey <kdk at daleco.biz> writes:
>
>> Drew Tomlinson wrote:
>>
>>> So this seems like updating portupgrade should be trivial but I am
>>> stuck. Suggestions appreciated.
>> Yeah, I missed the note on this one, too. Not the change note, but
>> I don't recall seeing the instructions on what to do about it.
>> Tried deinstalling portupgrade and reinstalling? The catch-22,
>> of course, is that you can't "cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade"
>> in order to `make deinstall`. However, this might work (and I believe
>> it's the kludge I used to get around the issue):
>>
>> $ rm -rf /var/db/pkg/portupgrade*
>> $ cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade
>> $ make install clean
>
> A little safer would be to replace the first line with
> "pkg_delete portupgrade*".
>
> If you're not going to go with the "portupgrade -o" solution
> that someone already posted.
Yeah, I think Chris hit that one right. Portupgrade_guru hat
to him.... ;-)
KDK
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The more they over-think the plumbing
the easier it is to stop up the drain.
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