upgrade software with no package db

[Sean Ellis]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 04:52:29PM -0800, Michael C. Shultz wrote:
> On Sunday 23 January 2005 04:36 pm, Sean Ellis wrote:

> > I'm looking moving to a newer Mysql version on a machine where the
> > database of installed packages has been trashed.
> >
 
> If you can pkg_add -rf to force installation and get  it recorded
> in /var/db/pkg/mysql... then running portmanager -u will get the 
> dependencies straightened out, correctly registered and it will likely
> rebuild mysql from ports too.
> 
> portmanager is under /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager 

portmanager

Thanks for that tip, I'll look into that.

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Sean