Re: How can I re-bootstrap pkgsrc?

[Roland Illig <rillig%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Roland Illig wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using pkgsrc as an unprivileged user, and I want to update pkg_* 
> and bmake to the current versions. So I ran bootstrap/bootstrap, but it 
> failed:
>
> $ bootstrap/bootstrap --unprivileged --prefix=/usr/pkg/2007Q2
> ...
> ===> Installing for bootstrap-mk-files-20071104
> ERROR: bootstrap-mk-files-20070810 is already installed - perhaps an 
> older version
> ...
>
> How can I update the pkgsrc "base" packages?

The reason for asking this question is that I want to get an answer that 
is simple enough so we can put it into our documentation and be proud 
that we have given our users the simplest possible way of doing that.

Why I want to have that? I don't remember at the moment, but it was 
definitely something useful.

Roland