From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 16 13:01:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80E7816A4CE for ; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 13:01:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C4CD43D2F for ; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 13:01:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BlSKh-0000RB-00 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:00:59 +0200 Received: from ns-ilmail3.ns-systems.com ([62.90.139.134]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:00:59 +0200 Received: from haim by ns-ilmail3.ns-systems.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:00:59 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Haim Ashkenazi Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:58:03 +0300 Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <20040715180633.GA85317@pit.databus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ns-ilmail3.ns-systems.com User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table (Debian GNU/Linux)) Sender: news Subject: Re: ports dependency/INDEX errors on 4.10 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 13:01:00 -0000 On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:06:33 -0400, Barney Wolff wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:26:57PM +0300, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: >> >> 2. the second problem is that I can't "make index". when I run it, it >> doesn't report any error, but when trying to run "portsman" I get an error >> that "INDEX file seems to be corrupted or is of an unknown format". the >> only way to fix it is to run cvsup, but then the versions I see in >> portsman are old. > > I've seen this problem when cvsup runs after "make index" - patch conflict > stuff is left in the file for you to resolve, and it's not in the right > format for INDEX. If you're going to make your own INDEX, you should > put INDEX in the cvsup refuse file to avoid this. Also, make index will > do odd stuff if you have any ports in the cvsup refuse file, because > there will be dependencies that can't be resolved - and the error messages, > which I think are also left in the generated INDEX, again are not in > the expected INDEX format. thanx for the info. I'll do it. Bye -- Haim