Portmaster 3.1 upgrade

Alexandre axelbsd at ymail.com
Tue Nov 2 08:56:46 UTC 2010


On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 6:22 PM, David Wolfskill <david at catwhisker.org>wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 05:57:52PM +0100, Alexandre wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I read in /usr/ports/UPGRADING the instructions to properly upgrade
> > PORTMASTER 3.1.
> > It is written to do :
> >
> > # pkg_delete -f portmaster*
> >
> > # cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster && make clean && make install clean
> >
> > But when I type the first one, I got the message :
> > pkg_delete: No match.
> >
> > Portmaster is installed :
> > #pkg_info | grep portmaster
> > portmaster-3.0      Manage your ports without external databases or
> > languages
> >
> > I know that I can uninstall and reinstall portmaster using # pkg_delete
> > portmaster-3.0 and the second command mentionned #make install clean
> > I just write this message because this instruction is written in
> > /usr/ports/UPDATING
>
> Change the pkg_delete invocation from:
>
> # pkg_delete -f portmaster*
>
> to:
>
> # pkg_delete -f 'portmaster*'
>
> so the shell will leave the wildcard alone.
>
> Peace,
> david
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>
Thanks to all !
# pkg_delete -f 'portmaster*' works for me. I have also use this command to
upgrade to portmaster v3.2 as suggested by Doug Barton.


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