On 11/03/2006 18:39, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Eric Schuele wrote:
On 11/02/2006 09:25, Robert Huff wrote:
Eric Schuele writes:
How can I force a reinstall of a port and all its deps.
The port itself will handle anything "above".
Well, that's what I had thought would happen, but the port does not
seem to re-register the dependencies. It simply notes that they are
present, and builds and registers the port I have attempted to `make
install`. So for example if I go to /usr/ports/www/firefox, and `make
install` it. I only end up with firefox in my /var/db/pkg folder.
None of its deps appear.
As for things "below" ... you're pretty much hosed. If the pkg
db (or equivalent) existed, it would know which ports had been
installed and could rebuild things.
Without the pkg db, the only record of what _should_ be
installed is in your head.
Have you tried sysutils/portmanager?
From the man page:
" Determines ports that are out of date by comparing them to Makefiles
downloaded through cvsup into the ports tree"
So it looks like it doesn't require /var/db/pkg to work.
"-p or --pristine
Updates a port if any dependency in it's /var/db/pkg/{port
name}/+CONTENTS does not match what is installed. The effect is
when
a port is updated, any port who uses the updated port in it's
depen-
dency chain, no matter how deep, are rebuilt. Normally only
ports one
level up are rebuilt."
This looks like it rebuilds /var/db/pkg
You also probably need -f if your ports are up-to-date
Aha!
Example from the man page:
rebuild all installed ports
portmanager -u -f
This might be my silver bullet. Its been running for quite some time
but it appears to be rebuilding everything and its full set of
dependencies. Thanks!
I've never used portmanager before. Always portupgrade. Nice.
I was having all sorts of difficulties using `pkgdb -F`. possibly
something else gone wrong on my machine. It was complaining of
DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND? and complaining that it could not convert nil to
String? Never seen it do that before.
Thanks!
I haven't tried it in these particular circumstances and I'm not sure if
I've read the man page right but it's worth a try, it's a pretty clever
utility.
Note if you try it on a single port you have to put the options after
the port name, see the EXAMPLES section. Also see my recent question
about portmanager and /tmp if you are rebuilding lots of ports in one
session.
Chris
Yes.. this is now painfully obvious to me. I guess in some way I had
thought the pkg db, was simply a convenience. But I now realize it is
*the authority* on what is installed on your machine. While I do plan
to back it up from now on... I have added the two small scripts to my
toolbox as well.
I alias the following as port_install
#!/bin/sh
#
# Used to create a log file of things I have installed on a machine
#
make install clean && \
printf "`pwd`\t\t\t`date`\n" >> /root/maint/install/port_install.log
and the following as port_deinstall (mind the word-wrap).
#!/bin/sh
#
# Used to create a log file of things I have installed on a machine
#
SCRIPT_DIR=/root/maint/install
grep -v `pwd` $SCRIPT_DIR/port_install.log >
$SCRIPT_DIR/port_deinstall.log
rm $SCRIPT_DIR/port_install.log
mv $SCRIPT_DIR/port_deinstall.log $SCRIPT_DIR/port_install.log
make deinstall
Then I have a list of top level apps that *I* have installed. I am
using the above today, as I am reinstalling all top level apps. :)
On the other hand, if you remeber
certain leaf ports installing them will drag in most of the
infrastructure. (My candidates: OpenOffice, Firefox, Apache,
something involving Java. GIMP.) It will still take time, but
within limits you can just let it run.
A scenario for the future: my /var/db/pkg has ~620 entries, and
totals just over 62mb. Building a tarball took less than a minute
and ate another 60mb. Might be a sound investment.
yeah... I have already added /var/db/pkg to my backup scripts. I
backup a bunch of system stuff every time I buildworld. I just wasn't
getting that.
Thanks.
Robert Huff
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