portupgrade vs. portmanager

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:01:58PM -0800, Jay O'Brien wrote:
> I'm running 5.3 RELEASE and trying to learn. I did a ports cvsup. 
> Following the Dru Lavigne article on portupgrade at 
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html?page=1
> I installed portupgrade and then ran portsdb -Uu. It errored out, 
> telling me that I shouldn't use my "refuse" file that stopped the non-
> english docs and ports from being loaded on my HD.
> 
> In trying to understand this issue, I found portmanager, and it looks 
> like it would perform the same function as portupgrade. 
> 
> My questions: Is there a way around the "refuse" file prohibition, 
> perhaps with portmanager? Does portmanager replace portupgrade? 

If you refuse parts of the ports collection, it's impossible for you
to build a consistent INDEX from it, which is what portsdb -uU does.
If you don't actually want to rebuild your own index, you can use
'make fetchindex' instead.

Kris
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