From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 23 12:48:00 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 6C76416A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 12:48:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2C8743D3F for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 12:47:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from [207.41.94.233] (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id iANCl0Lc014489; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 04:47:00 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, axel.gruner@suedfactoring.de Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 04:47:57 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 References: <20041123084531.GD95566@pcs28.suedfactoring.de> In-Reply-To: <20041123084531.GD95566@pcs28.suedfactoring.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200411230447.57384.kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: Problem with INDEX 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: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 12:48:00 -0000 On Tuesday 23 November 2004 12:45 am, Axel S. Gruner wrote: > Hi. > > I ran into some problems with "portsdb -uU" since the INDEX file has > been removed from the CVS. > Sometimes it works, sometimes not. > In my understanding, after a cvsup of the ports tree, i have to do a > "make fetchindex". Works fine. But what about a "portsd -uU"? Is this > one obsolet (but portupgrade needs the INDEX.db?)? > > So the only INDEX file i have is "INDEX" if i run "portsdb -uU" i get > en Error 1. If i run just "portversion -v" after a cvsup, i get a > "Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait.." > after a while also an error 1. > > So, is this just a problem "at the moment", or does it depends on the > removal of "INDEX" from the CVS tree? After you do a fetchindex, you need to run portsdb -u to build a new INDEX.db. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html