From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 24 9:45:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09E3A37B405 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 09:45:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from sdn-ar-007dcwashp300.dialsprint.net ([63.178.90.166] helo=moo.holy.cow) by snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16f2hu-0004s9-00; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 09:45:06 -0800 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B041750BA9; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:47:15 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:47:15 -0500 From: parv To: Mike Meyer Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to list port dependencies Message-ID: <20020224174715.GA330@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: Mike Meyer , questions@freebsd.org References: <15480.35795.543145.356610@guru.mired.org> <15481.288.969944.692115@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15481.288.969944.692115@guru.mired.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG in message <15481.288.969944.692115@guru.mired.org>, wrote Mike Meyer thusly... > > Joe & Fhe Barbish types: ... > > > > You said "First, make sure your /usr/ports/INDEX file is up to > > date by doing a "make INDEX" in that directory". > > > > I cd /usr/ports and issued make INDEX, get message don't know > > how to make index. Did ls on /usr/ports and there is no INDEX file. > > That's very odd. Did you have the makefile in /usr/ports at all? ... in addition to having Makefile, make command should be "make index" -- note the case of "index". otherwise, if INDEX file exists, you will get message that INDEX is already up to date. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message