Tricking pkg_version

[Rene Ladan]

Stephen Montgomery-Smith schreef:
> Luke Dean wrote:
>>
>> I installed phpbb-3.02 from ports (i.e. "make install").
>> I then used phpbb's built-in upgrade system to upgrade it to version 
>> 3.04.
>> This of course did not bump the version number in the ports/packages
>> database.
>> I frequently use csup + pkg_version -L to spot ports that are out of 
>> date,
>> and this one will probably show up forever now.
>>
>> I don't wish to recompile anything because I've made a lot of custom
>> changes to the php code and I don't want to go through the pain of
>> remerging all that stuff again.
>>
>> Is there a way that I can tell pkg_version that I think I'm already
>> running version 3.04?
>> I'd like to continue to pretend that this package is still managed by the
>> ports/package system even though I've modified it.  I realize that 
>> this is
>> not sane, but it will help me spot new versions when they become 
>> available
>> and I just like having all my software listed in one place like this.
>>
>> I've briefly poked around in /var/db/pkg/phpbb-3.0.2, but those files 
>> with
>> all their checksums just scream "don't touch!" to me.
>>
>> I'm not using any ports/package management tools except for "make" and
>> "pkg_*", so aside from whatever database pkg_info uses, there are no 
>> other
>> databases to worry about.
> 
> You could try:
> 
> cd /var/db/pkg
> mv phpbb-3.0.2 phpbb-3.0.4
> 
> I think it is likely to work.  And if it doesn't, the damage is easily 
> repaired.
This should indeed work, but don't forget to update +CONTENTS as well.
(the @name tag).  The outdated @pkgdep tags in dependent packages
shouldn't hurt.

Rene
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