================================================================================ portsreinstall - ports upgrading utility for massive forced reinstallation Version 4.1.0, September ??, 2018 Copyright (C) 2010-2018 Mamoru Sakaue, MwGhennndo, All Rights Reserved. ================================================================================ This software is a ports management tool for FreeBSD designed to be suitable for reinstallation of all packages after major version upgrade of the system or very long absence of ports upgrade. The executable command is "portsreinstall". Short and long helps are shown by "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 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". This software consists of the following files: 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. The port for this software, i.e., ports-mgmt/portsreinstall, is maintained by the same author. Thus installation/deinstallation of this software is available via the conventional functions of the ports/packages system as explained by the manual page of ports(7). For installation outside of the ports/packages system, follow the descriptions in INSTALL. 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 -r will work.