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portsreinstall - ports upgrading utility for massive forced reinstallation
- Version 3.0.0, June 1, 2013
- Copyright (C) 2010-2013 Mamoru Sakaue, MwGhennndo, All Rights Reserved.
+ Version 4.1.1, October ??, 2021
+ Copyright (C) 2010-2021 Mamoru Sakaue, MwGhennndo, All Rights Reserved.
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This software is a ports management tool for FreeBSD designed to be suitable
"portsreinstall -h" and "portsreinstall -H", respectively. The manual page is
shown by "man portsreinstall". The superuser privilege is required for
operations by this executable. Entire reinstallation of all installed packages
-starts by execution without argument or options. The process can be interupped
+starts by execution without argument or options. The process can be interrupted
by CTRL+C at any stages and restarted from there by execution without argument
or options.
- Temporal databases are constructed under /var/tmp/portsreinstall.db/ which must
-be preserved until you complete or give up the reinstallation work. The database
-can be cleaned by executing "portsreinstall clean".
+ Temporal databases are constructed under /var/tmp/portsreinstall.db,
+/var/tmp/portsreinstall-chroot.db and /var/tmp/portsreinstall-upgrade.db which
+must be preserved until you complete or give up the reinstallation work. The
+database can be cleaned by executing "portsreinstall clean".
This software consists of the following files:
- README : This file
- COPYRIGHT : Copyright and license terms
- INSTALL : Installation guide
- Makefile : Makefile usable by make(1)
- etc/ : Run-time configuration files
- lib/ : Run-time libraries
- bin/ : Run-time executables
- man/ : On-line manual pages
+ README : This file
+ COPYRIGHT : Copyright and license terms
+ HISTORY : Detailed history of releases
+ INSTALL : Installation guide
+ Makefile : Makefile usable by make(1)
+ bin/ : Run-time executables
+ etc/ : Run-time configuration files
+ lib/ : Run-time libraries
+ libexec/ : Run-time executable libraries
+ man/ : On-line manual pages
+ share/ : Files used for other purposes
The all files in this package are distributed under the 2-Clause BSD License as
described in COPYRIGHT.
Details including the usage and history can be browsed by the on-line manual
page. For browsing before installation,
- nroff -man ${THIS_DIRECTORY}/man/portsreinstall.8 | less
+ nroff -man ${THIS_DIRECTORY}/man/portsreinstall.8 | less -r
will work.