Portupgrade problem

[Kent Stewart]

On Friday 09 April 2004 01:31 pm, Kent Stewart wrote:
> On Friday 09 April 2004 01:08 pm, Andreas Davour wrote:
> > On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > 	If I can offer a practical tip re cvsu'ing and running 'pkgdb
> > > 	-Uu', why not script it and run it out of cron?  That's how I
> > > 	make sure tht my ports tree is neat nd clean.
> >
> > Well, when I have succeeded in doing a portupgrade by hand I think
> > that might be an option. I must feel confident that it works before
> > I dare script it by cron.
> >
> > One thing confuses me, though. I refers to 'pkgdb -Uu', but the man
> > page for that program don't mention a -U flag. There is another
> > program called 'portsdb' that have both a -u and a -U flag. Which
> > one am I supposed to use. Both?
>
> You figured out the right one. I frequently mix the 2 up but only one
> has the -uU option :). I use make index instead of portsdb -u but
> portsdb now uses make index to build INDEX[-5]. So my way isn't
> different any more.

One more correction. It is portsdb -U to build the INDEX. I do use 
portsdb -u to build INDEX.db.

Kent
>
> I also forgot to add that I use a cronjob to do the cvsup but I do it
> twice a day.
>
> Kent

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