On Tuesday 27 January 2004 04:35 pm, fbsd_user wrote: > Sounds like you are missing the /usr/ports INDEX file or it's messed > up big time. Try cvsup-ing the posts-base category. The INDEX file > is part of that category. The ports-base category only contains the > things that make the ports application function and will not effect > any of your port config files you have previous downloaded to your > hard drive. With out an current ports-base you have no bases from > which to debug other ports problems. If you do not know how to do > this, contact me back and I will give you instructions.
You don't understand. Portsdb -U and make index are alternate processes that can be used to create INDEX. If you don't have a fully populated ports tree make bails. So, if you are going to do a "make index" you have to cvsup ports-all, I would guess that he refused too many sections. Kent > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Henrik W > Lund > Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 4:24 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: The fear of cvsupping my ports... > > Greetings! > > I was just wondering if anyone knew how to work around this little > problem I have. I'm running 4.9-RELEASE, by the way. > > Now, the thing is, I run into problems when I've cvsupped my ports > tree. > "make index" bails out afer about 2 seconds, and "portsdb -U" spews > out > about 3000 lines of "<portname> missing:" " dependency list > incomplete". > This, of course, leaves my package database mangled, with > portversion > reporting all of my installed ports as being of a later date than > the > ones in the ports tree. I've tried cvsupping at various points in > time > over the past few weeks, but to no avail. A bit of snooping around > led > me to suspect that maybe it has something to do with the make > program, > but I'm not sure. > > Has anyone got any idea? Must I upgrade to -STABLE? I'd rather not, > because in my experience those kinds of major upgrades leave the > system > anything BUT stable. On the other hand, I'm getting tired of > reinstalling the ports tree from sysinstall to avoid complete and > utter > chaos. > > Please (b)cc: me, as I'm not a subscriber. Thanks!! > > Henrik W Lund > Computer Engineering student > Østfold College > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
