Moving to new PC

[Jonathan Horne]

On Sunday 17 September 2006 16:04, Jonathan Horne wrote:
> On Sunday 17 September 2006 12:44, White Hat wrote:
> > --- Jonathan Horne <freebsd at dfwlp.com> wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > sounds interesting enough.  if you will supply the
> > > portmanager command syntax,
> > > ill supply the test computer, and post the results.
> >
> > I guess I would want to run portmanager in a force
> > update mode.
> >
> > 	portmanager -u -f -l -y
> >
> > should do it. It will create a log in
> > /var/log/portmanager.log so at least we can see what
> > transpires. The '-y' flag may not be necessary, but
> > should not hurt. It will force it to answer yes to any
> > questions. The only problem that I could forsee is the
> > building of Java. Those files would have to be
> > download prior to the build and installed in the
> > /usr/ports/distfiles directory. I think portmanager by
> > default does not do Java. That means that the
> > pm-020.conf file will have to be modified. Not a big
> > deal though.
>
> ok, test run #1 is under way.  i built a system using the same base install
> that i did for my workstation (minimal).  as prescribed, i then copied over
> the entire /var/db/pkg/ directory from my worktation to the new system, and
> issued the command 'portmanager -u -f -l -y'.  so far, the test system is
> behaving as the experiment expected, and it is currently downloading
> sources and it looks to be building packages.
>
> ill update again later (probably need about a day, this test system is but
> an athlon 2000+ with an ages old hard drive).
>
> **update before i click send**
> the -y flag does not appear to be honored here, as gettext just stop to ask
> me what i would like built.
>
> cheers,
> jonathan

the update for today is, that it is still going, but there has been quite a 
bit of delay while the ports stops on the knobs screen.  each time i see one, 
i hit the 'ok', but this is causing the obvious delays.

other than that, so far, no errors or halts.

cheers,
jonathan