Comments on: Re-bootstrapping pkgsrc http://mjturner.net/blog/archives/2008/07/26/re-bootstrapping-pkgsrc/ Michael-John Turner: Musings from a random UNIX geek Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:28:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jonathanjg http://mjturner.net/blog/archives/2008/07/26/re-bootstrapping-pkgsrc/comment-page-1/#comment-46909 jonathanjg Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:50:26 +0000 http://mjturner.net/blog/archives/2008/07/26/re-bootstrapping-pkgsrc/#comment-46909 There were some minor differences in the above to the way I do things, for reference: I also do ./pkg_delete -ff nawk ./pkg_delete -ff nbsed ./pkg_delete -ff audit-packages-1.46 And have a call to ./cleanup before the ./bootstrap step There were some minor differences in the above to the way I do things, for reference:

I also do
./pkg_delete -ff nawk
./pkg_delete -ff nbsed
./pkg_delete -ff audit-packages-1.46

And have a call to ./cleanup before the ./bootstrap step

]]> By: hubertf http://mjturner.net/blog/archives/2008/07/26/re-bootstrapping-pkgsrc/comment-page-1/#comment-46842 hubertf Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:10:18 +0000 http://mjturner.net/blog/archives/2008/07/26/re-bootstrapping-pkgsrc/#comment-46842 funky, i went through a similar process the other day. instead of trying to update in-place, i've opted for creating a new, second installation in a separate directory. gave me time to rebuild everything, then switch the /usr/pkg symlink. I wanted to blog about this, as I was really impressed how smooth things worked. I did this on Debian Linux and Mac OS X (Tiger) btw. - Hubert funky, i went through a similar process the other day. instead of trying to update in-place, i’ve opted for creating a new, second installation in a separate directory. gave me time to rebuild everything, then switch the /usr/pkg symlink. I wanted to blog about this, as I was really impressed how smooth things worked. I did this on Debian Linux and Mac OS X (Tiger) btw.

– Hubert

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