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2 portsreinstall - ports upgrading utility for massive forced reinstallation
3 Version 4.1.0, September ??, 2018
4 Copyright (C) 2010-2018 Mamoru Sakaue, MwGhennndo, All Rights Reserved.
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7 This software is a ports management tool for FreeBSD designed to be suitable
8 for reinstallation of all packages after major version upgrade of the system or
9 very long absence of ports upgrade.
11 The executable command is "portsreinstall". Short and long helps are shown by
12 "portsreinstall -h" and "portsreinstall -H", respectively. The manual page is
13 shown by "man portsreinstall". The superuser privilege is required for
14 operations by this executable. Entire reinstallation of all installed packages
15 starts by execution without argument or options. The process can be interupped
16 by CTRL+C at any stages and restarted from there by execution without argument
19 Temporal databases are constructed under /var/tmp/portsreinstall.db/ which must
20 be preserved until you complete or give up the reinstallation work. The database
21 can be cleaned by executing "portsreinstall clean".
23 This software consists of the following files:
25 COPYRIGHT : Copyright and license terms
26 HISTORY : Detailed history of releases
27 INSTALL : Installation guide
28 Makefile : Makefile usable by make(1)
29 bin/ : Run-time executables
30 etc/ : Run-time configuration files
31 lib/ : Run-time libraries
32 libexec/ : Run-time executable libraries
33 man/ : On-line manual pages
34 share/ : Files used for other purposes
36 The all files in this package are distributed under the 2-Clause BSD License as
37 described in COPYRIGHT.
39 The port for this software, i.e., ports-mgmt/portsreinstall, is maintained by
40 the same author. Thus installation/deinstallation of this software is available
41 via the conventional functions of the ports/packages system as explained by the
42 manual page of ports(7). For installation outside of the ports/packages system,
43 follow the descriptions in INSTALL.
45 Details including the usage and history can be browsed by the on-line manual
46 page. For browsing before installation,
47 nroff -man ${THIS_DIRECTORY}/man/portsreinstall.8 | less -r