portmanager confusion

Randy Bush randy at psg.com
Mon Mar 13 16:01:44 UTC 2006


>> but i can not force build any other port.  how does one force the
>> build?
> Portupgrade -f "some portname" will do it.

i thought i was supposed to be moving from portupgrade to this
portmaster thing.  i know portupgrade only too well.

unfortunately, it's database is corrupted in some way that
portsdb -Uu can't fix :-(

# portupgrade mail/exim-monitor
[Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 542 packages found (-534 +534) (...)[Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 542 packages found (-534 +534) (...)/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:466: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-freebsd7]


randy



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