From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 3 18:20:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E9FF16A4CE for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2004 18:20:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.194.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41BCE43D41 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2004 18:20:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F1F0C51221; Wed, 3 Nov 2004 10:22:09 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 10:22:09 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: G?nther Dippe Message-ID: <20041103182209.GA78103@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <654F4C4B-2DA0-11D9-9197-000393555914@ncm.gu.se> <20041103163746.GA56359@xor.obsecurity.org> <20041103173147.GA67301@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="T4sUOijqQbZv57TR" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: portsdb: index generation error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 18:20:01 -0000 --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 07:12:19PM +0100, G?nther Dippe wrote: > On 2004-11-03, at 18.31, Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > >On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 06:14:48PM +0100, G?nther Dippe wrote: > >>On 2004-11-03, at 17.37, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> > >>>On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 02:58:10PM +0100, G?nther Dippe wrote: > >>> > >>>>I downloaded a fresh ports.tar.gz and unpacked it (FreeBSD 5.1). > >>> > >>>>******************************************************************** > >>>>Before reporting this error.... > >>>> > >>> > >>>Er, and what did the say? Error messages are there for a > >>>reason, you'd do well to read them! > >>> > >>>Kris > >> > >>Hi Kris, hi all, > >>The snipped info was only a general note what I should do before > >>reporting an error (any kind of error). > > > >Yes, so why didn't you follow the directions? > > > >Kris >=20 > I'm not sure I understand. From what I see I do have a supported=20 > version of FreeBSD (5.1) > and the ports collection was fresh. I should check that before=20 > reporting an error (according > to the snipped text). If you followed the URL in the error you'd learn that it's not in fact a supported release by the ports collection. Kris --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQFBiSHRWry0BWjoQKURApy0AJiuOjLL/1I2O2t3XQ6Cj/Bis6s/AJwNWSFb 6UiZAuJrSmx2ve2YN+Qo1A== =I5fW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR--