Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:30:54 -0400 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: Robert Fitzpatrick <lists@webtent.net> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ports system gone Message-ID: <20070605173054.cqun7p5geocgs8o4@newwebmail.jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <1181076645.4012.19.camel@columbus.webtent.org> References: <1181076645.4012.19.camel@columbus.webtent.org>
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Quoting Robert Fitzpatrick <lists@webtent.net>: > How can I restore my ports system? Use a valid tag in your ports-supfile (probably ".") and try again. > I have no idea what happened. I have a server I setup over the weekend > to start testing Maia Mailguard, installed many packages over the last > few days (postfix+amavisd+SA+related). I can't remember the last package > installed via the ports system, I updated it to src-all and back to > ports-all once to compile my kernel. Now, today I go to install a > package and practically everything is gone...this is all I have left... > > mx1# ls /usr/ports > INDEX-6 INDEX-6.db dns security > INDEX-6.bz2 distfiles net > mx1# ls /usr/ports/dns > bind9-dlz > mx1# ls /usr/ports/security/ > vscan > mx1# ls /usr/ports/net/ > openldap23-client > > At this point I want to assume I mistakenly did a rm sometime, what else > could cause something like this? Can't find any issues in the logs and > no other issues with any services running on the box. Can't find > anything else missing. If I try to run my ports update my ports, it just > hangs here... > > mx1# cd /usr/ports > mx1# /usr/local/bin/cvsup /root/ports-supfile > Connected to cvsup9.us.FreeBSD.org > Updating collection ports-all/cvs JN
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