Suggested port command enhancement?

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Jun 5, 2008, at 4:52 PM, paul beard wrote:
> OK. So that's solved. But perhaps these is an additional postflight  
> step needed?

you need to run:

port mirror installed

first (which will download any missing distfiles for installed ports  
and set up the distfiles_mirror.db file)

> [/Users/paul]# portmirror
> The database doesn't exist at </opt/local/var/macports/ 
> distfiles_mirror.db>
>     while executing
> "open_database"
>     (file "/opt/local/bin/portmirror" line 91)
> (root at tichy.paulbeard.org)-(01:51 PM / Thu Jun 05)
> [/Users/paul]# touch /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles_mirror.db
> (root at tichy.paulbeard.org)-(01:51 PM / Thu Jun 05)
> [/Users/paul]# portmirror
> deleting /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/aalib/aalib-1.4rc5.tar.gz
> deleting /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/apache2/httpd-2.2.8.tar.bz2
> deleting /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/apr/apr-1.2.12.tar.bz2

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