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Gerard Seibert
gerard at seibercom.net
Sun Nov 5 12:25:29 UTC 2006
On Saturday November 04, 2006 at 08:58:08 (AM) Eric Schuele wrote:
> Example from the man page:
> rebuild all installed ports
>
> portmanager -u -f
>
> This might be my silver bullet. Its been running for quite some time
> but it appears to be rebuilding everything and its full set of
> dependencies. Thanks!
>
> I've never used portmanager before. Always portupgrade. Nice.
>
> I was having all sorts of difficulties using `pkgdb -F`. possibly
> something else gone wrong on my machine. It was complaining of
> DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND? and complaining that it could not convert nil to
> String? Never seen it do that before.
You might have wanted to include the "-l" flag so you would have had a
log of what actually transpired. Not a big thing I guess. Be sure to run
'pkgdb -aFu' when portmanager finishes. It usually does not report any
errors, but it cannot hurt to be on the safe side.
--
Gerard
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