On Fri, 24 Jul 2015, David Wolfskill wrote:
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 05:21:07PM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p20 (GENERIC) #0: Tue Jul 21 19:29:33 UTC 2015
Having completely scragged my ports area following various changes to
pkg/pkgng/etc, and being unable to "sysinstall" it from CD (not found for
some reason) or via FTP (not found on server etc), I found a pristine copy
of ports.txz and unpacked it (sigh, yet another compression scheme), after
renaming the old directory.
Anyway, what do I do now? Assume that many ports have been installed, and
that the databases etc are probably a dog's breakfast, per the conflicts
that I have posted here earlier. If it helps, I have a list of those
ports that were installed, and hopefully the dependencies will be taken
care of automagically.
....
Near the bottom of portmaster(8), there is a procedure entitled "Using
portmaster to do a complete reinstallation of all your ports". I have
used that procedure (with some variations) over the years -- e.g.,
migrating from 8.x -> 9.x, then 9.x to 10.x; more recently, I extracted
bits of it to migrate from stable/10 i386 -> stable/10 amd64 [gory
details at
<http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/FreeBSD/convert_i386_amd64.html>].
Updated portmaster man page procedure here:
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/rebuilding-all-ports-with-portmaster.51210/
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