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2012-11-17 05:56, Gary Aitken skrev:
> so, after updating bios, repartitioning, etc,
> things seem to be stable, modulo the following:
>
> decided to rebuild ports for peace of mind,
> but my basic ports tree is hosed:
>
>      # portmaster -t --clean-distfiles
>      ...
>      "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.php.mk", line 335: Malformed conditional (${_USE_PHP_VER${PHP_VER}:Myes} != "")
>      ...
>      make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
>
>      ===>>> No DISTINFO_FILE in /usr/ports/lang/php4-extensions
>
>      "Makefile", line 20: Could not find /usr/ports/mail/enigmail-thunderbird3/../enigmail/Makefile
>      make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
>
> Sure enough:
>
> # ls /usr/ports/lang/php4-extensions
> CVS             Makefile        pkg-descr
>
> I didn't see anything in the handbook about how to get the ports tree itself
> back to a sane condition.  Do I have to blow the whole thing away and do a
> fresh extract?  I don't see a way to force refetch of the actual ports files
> like "distinfo" when portsnap thinks the port is up to date.

I would do: portsnap fetch update extract or download the ports tarball.

ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz