Portmaster 3.1 upgrade

David Wolfskill david at catwhisker.org
Sun Oct 31 17:54:31 UTC 2010


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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