Why is this method described in portmaster(8)?
Can
Also, what's the point in performing 5 before 6? Seems counterintuitive to me. Why rebuild all those packages (
ETA: Never mind about the question immediately above; I misread portmaster(8). Apparently
ETA: Also, considering pkg_ is deprecated -- what's the up-to-date method (PKGNG)? That really should be in the official documentation.
Code:
Using portmaster to do a complete reinstallation of all your ports:
1. portmaster --list-origins > ~/installed-port-list
2. Update your ports tree
3. portmaster -ty --clean-distfiles
4. portmaster --check-port-dbdir
5. portmaster -Faf
6. pkg_delete -a
7. rm -rf /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg
8. Back up any files in /usr/local you wish to save,
such as configuration files in /usr/local/etc
9. Manually check /usr/local and /var/db/pkg
to make sure that they are really empty
10. Re-install portmaster
11. portmaster `cat ~/installed-port-list`
You probably want to use the -D option for the installation and then run
--clean-distfiles [-y] again when you are done. You might also want to
consider using the --force-config option when installing the new ports.
Alternatively you could use portmaster -a -f -D to do an ``in place''
update of your ports. If that process is interrupted for any reason you
can use portmaster -a -f -D -R to avoid rebuilding ports already rebuilt
on previous runs. However the first method (delete everything and rein-
stall) is preferred.Can
portmaster -f equally be used?Also, what's the point in performing 5 before 6? Seems counterintuitive to me. Why rebuild all those packages (
portmaster -Faf) only to delete them ( pkg_delete -a)?ETA: Never mind about the question immediately above; I misread portmaster(8). Apparently
portmaster -Faf only fetches distfiles. ETA: Also, considering pkg_ is deprecated -- what's the up-to-date method (PKGNG)? That really should be in the official documentation.