On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:33:40 -0500, Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
David wrote:
Hello,
I have this error when building a port index.
Out of curiosity, why are you building the index yourself instead of
using 'make fetchindex'?
There are a few of reasons to build port index by yourself. The 'make
fetchindex' don't sync with ports tree by 100% at most if you are using
CVS/CVSup. If you modify any choice of dependency, it will changing the
INDEX. You will have to build index by yourself if you have different
branch of ports tree such as recently with xorg git, MC ports (GNOME
stuff) or personal branch.
As for in my system:
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# ls -l /usr/ports | grep INDEX
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 May 20 2006 INDEX.dummy
# make -V PORTS_INDEX
/usr/ports/INDEX.dummy
# portmaster rules
portmaster version 1.17
Usage:
[....] ;-)
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Cheers,
Mezz
It's also worth noting that the other response you got was right. The
first thing you should always do if you encounter an error is update
your sources to see if it's been fixed already. :)
hth,
Doug
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