portupgrade, was Re: Need to build some systems this week. Snapshots?

[Scott Lambert]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 01:42:28PM +0200, Clemens Fischer wrote:
> * 2003-08-31 Wes Peters:
> 
> > They can get a freshened package anytime anyone on the whole planet
> > builds one for them, including themselves.  It's really not that
> > difficult to run CVSup and then 'portupgrade', it really isn't.
> 
> i have some ports/packages in production from the time when packages
> didn't have ORIGIN lines in /var/db/pkg/*.  what would be the best use
> (options) to run portupgrade(1) with?  i get lots of warnings that
> scare me off.
 
pkgdb -F

Fixup all the ORIGINs and then use portupgrade normally.  It will be a
pain but you only have to do it once per machine.

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Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
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