On Wednesday 16 February 2005 06:10 pm, epilogue wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:17:09 -0600
>
> "Cody Holland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > After running cvsup, I then ran portdb -Uu and received the
> > following error.
> >
> > Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please
> > wait..gnustep-slideshow-0.3: "/usr/ports/graphics/slideshowkit"
> > non-existent -- dependency list incomplete
> > ===> graphics/gnustep-slideshow failed
> > *** Error code 1
> > 1 error
> >
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /usr/ports.
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /usr/ports.
> > failed to generate INDEX!
> > portsdb: index generation error
> >
> > How do I fix this?
>
> hello cody,
>
> note: this is not a fix, but an alternative:
>
> rather than building your copy of INDEX locally, you can
>
> cd /usr/ports && make fetchindex
>
> this will download a precompiled copy INDEX. while this one is not
> guaranteed to *exactly* match your local tree (although it might), it
> is sufficiently fresh that you are not likely to bump into any INDEX
> related problems. if i had to guess as to its reliability, i would
> say that it works 99.978592% of the time.
>
> this precompiled copy is rebuilt by the servers every 2 hours (or
> less), so if you ever do bump into a problem, you can just wait a bit
> and pull down a newer version (or build it locally).
>
> the advantage you ask? well, downloading the INDEX takes only the
> time required for your connection to pull down a ~700 k file, whereas
> building INDEX locally usually takes 30-60 minutes, not to mention,
> quite a few CPU cycles.
>
> anyhoo. food for thought.
>
>
> cheers,
> epi
>
Gee, I did that this morning - make fetchindex that is - and when I ran
"portversion -vL=" I learned that 14 of the installed packages were to
advanced and I needed to go backwards. I wonder when that INDEX-5 was
built.
Three ways to get around it:
1) rm -r /usr/ports/graphics/gnustep-slideshow
Then run portdb
2) There is an error in the Makefile, go in and fix it. It was reported
on ports@
3) Ignore it until it's fixed in a couple of days.
Don
--
Donald J. O'Neill
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I'm not totally useless,
I can be used as a bad example.
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