On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 10:50:01PM +0930, Brian Astill wrote: > My ISP now stores "all" the FBSD ports and sources > > #portsdb -Uu > Updating the ports index ...make: don't know how to make > //ftp.filearena.net/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles//(continuing): > malformed entry: make: don't know how to make > //ftp.filearena.net/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles//(continuing) > make: don't know how to make > //ftp.filearena.net/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles//(continuing): > malformed entry: make: don't know how to make > //ftp.filearena.net/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles//(continuing) > > and so on ad infinitum (well nearly :-) ) until: > > failed to generate INDEX! > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/portsdb.rb:210:in `update': index > generation error (PortsDB::IndexFileError) > from /usr/local/sbin/portsdb:154:in `main' > from /usr/local/sbin/portsdb:66:in `initialize' > from /usr/local/sbin/portsdb:66:in `new' > from /usr/local/sbin/portsdb:66:in `main' > from /usr/local/sbin/portsdb:205 > > OK, so I have rebuilt the ports index files by commenting out the > offending references to filearena in /etc/make.conf BUT I need to > uncomment them again to take advantage of my ISP's collection of > distfiles.
Sounds like you have something incorrect in make.conf, but you forgot to include it so we can't be sure :-) Kris
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