Because when I tried to add the portslist package, it has not been found ( ftp.spline.de mirror) yesterday. I have tried adding it again now after reading you message and it has been successfully installed.
Looks like the problem is solved now. Thank you. Jan On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 7:10 PM Marc Espie <es...@nerim.net> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 02:32:02PM +0100, Jan Betlach wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > strange problem. I am running -current. I have downloaded latest ports > > tree .tar.gz to /temp, then tar xzf in /usr. > > All ports are where they belong (/usr/ports). > > However when searching anything (make search key=package) I get > > following error: > > Please install portslist > > pkg_add portslist > > *** Error 1 in /usr/ports (Makefile:80 '/usr/local/share/ports-INDEX': > > @exit 1) > > > > Any help is appreciated. Thank you > > > > Jan > So why don't you read the error message and do just that ? >