On Thursday 23 December 2004 10:01 pm, Jay O'Brien wrote: > I'm running 5.3 RELEASE and trying to learn. I did a ports cvsup. > Following the Dru Lavigne article on portupgrade at > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html?page=1 > I installed portupgrade and then ran portsdb -Uu. It errored out, > telling me that I shouldn't use my "refuse" file that stopped the > non- english docs and ports from being loaded on my HD. > > In trying to understand this issue, I found portmanager, and it looks > like it would perform the same function as portupgrade. > > My questions: Is there a way around the "refuse" file prohibition, > perhaps with portmanager? Does portmanager replace portupgrade?
portmanager doesn't require the INDEX files to keep ports up to date, so the refuse file is a non issue with it. -Mike _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
