Re: How can I re-bootstrap pkgsrc?

[jnemeth%victoria.tc.ca@localhost (John Nemeth)]

On May 30,  9:57am, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
} 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.

    Would this trick be useful for updating pax as well?

}-- End of excerpt from Joerg Sonnenberger