Base System Rebuild

[ETHAN HOUSE (RIT Student)]

As much as I hate giving up and starting up it's what I decided to do.

I am clearing out /usr/local and starting from scratch.

Thanks for all of the help guys,

Ethan House


On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Erich Dollansky <
erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:23:59 -0800
> "ETHAN HOUSE (RIT Student)" <ewh2048 at rit.edu> wrote:
>
> > One more quick question.
> >
> > I am trying to rebuild all of my user land packages so it pulls down
> > and fixes all of the broken deps.
> >
> I am not 100% sure if this will work.
>
> > $ portmaster -af
> > ...
> > ===>>> Currently installed version: virtio-kmod-9.0-0.242658
> > ===>>> Port directory: /usr/ports/emulators/virtio-kmod
> >
> >     ===>>> This port is marked IGNORE
> >     ===>>> not supported ${OSREL} (9.2)
> >
> >
> >     ===>>> If you are sure you can build it, remove the
> >            IGNORE line in the Makefile and try again.
>
> Ask a search engine why this port is marked ignore.
> >
> > ===>>> Update for virtio-kmod-9.0-0.242658 failed
> > ===>>> Aborting update
> >
> > Any idea how to get around this. I tried portupdate except it pkgdb -F
> > wasn't happy I was using pkgng packages.
> >
> You must use either or. I would recommend pkgng.
>
> And still, I would copy the /usr/local directory to a different
> location, delete all ports and start from scratch. I do not believe
> that portmaster or portupgrade are able to handle all weird situations
> which you might will find at that machine.
>
> Erich
>