resync ports/packages after upgrade?

Jeff Dickens jeff at seamanpaper.com
Wed Mar 21 21:33:06 UTC 2007


Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:36:42AM -0400, Jeff Dickens wrote:
>   
>> I did a binary upgrade from 6.1 to 6.2 and made what I think was the 
>> mistake of having it install the ports tree over my existing ports 
>> tree.  I'd been using portupgrade to maintain my ports.  What's the 
>> easiest way to get back to "normal" ?
>>     
>
> Remove /usr/ports and resync with cvsup/csup (which could take a while)
> or portsnap.
>   

Thanks.. That's what I did, with Portsnap, although I didn't remove it 
first I think it did that for me.  I seem to be in good shape now.


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