regular portsdb maintanence

Michael P. Soulier msoulier at digitaltorque.ca
Sat Apr 7 13:17:58 UTC 2007


On 28/03/07 illoai at gmail.com said:

> I am not sure you would want to do that, as
> if it were to overlap with a normal portupgrade
> the results may be interesting.

Yes, it's become plain to me that the pkgdb -L is working off of metadata that
was updated with the last cvsup, and not the packages that I currently have
installed. So, unless I've done a full portupgrade, pkgdb -L just breaks the
dependencies and I must then fix them via pkgdb -F. 

Mike
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Michael P. Soulier <msoulier at digitaltorque.ca>
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It
takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite
direction." --Albert Einstein
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