Re: How can I re-bootstrap pkgsrc?

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 06:03:56AM -0800, John Nemeth wrote:
> On May 30,  8:27am, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> } On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 05:19:56AM -0800, John Nemeth wrote:
> } >      Have you tried 'make update'?  That generally works for pkg_install.
> } 
> } You can't remove the mk file package when running make...
> 
>      So, I discovered earlier tonight.  I'm just starting to play with
> pkgsrc on non-NetBSD systems.  Anyways, it appears that the only
> solution at the moment is to rebootstrap.  It would be nice if there
> were a cleaner mechanism for doing this.

Not automated. You can do something using DESTDIR and running pkg_add -u
manually, but you will use the precious flag at the very least.

Joerg