Date: 26 Dec 2002 22:26:02 +0000 From: Stacey Roberts <stacey@vickiandstacey.com> To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Cc: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More Portupgrade questions Message-ID: <1040941561.68500.88.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20021226222129651.AAA338@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> References: <20021226213238669.AAA277@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> <20021226222129651.AAA338@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com>
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On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 22:21, Philip J. Koenig wrote: > On 26 Dec 2002 at 13:39, Kent Stewart boldly uttered: > > > On Thursday 26 December 2002 01:32 pm, Philip J. Koenig wrote: > > > When running "portsdb -uU" as recommended in the Portupgrade > > > documentation I'm currently getting some errors, and not sure if I > > > have to do something about them or what I should do. Couldn't find > > > any suggestions in the Portsdb manpage. > > > > Until just recently "make index" was broken and the only choice was > > using -uU. There was a ~2 day band where "make index" was really > > broken. > > > > For some time now, the only way to get a full list of ports is to do a > > "make index" from /usr/ports. You make get a duplicate port message but > > it works. The -U options fills screens with messages as it encounters > > ports that it can't deal with. > > > Running "make index" fills the screen with lots more error messages > than "portsdb -Uu".. :-) > > Mostly "..no entry for.." messages, some "..Duplicate INDEX entry:.." > messages. > > Continued below. > > > > On 26 Dec 2002 at 21:37, Stacey Roberts boldly uttered: > > > portsdb -U is broken / has been broken for ages. Use the following > > sequence instead: > > make index > > pkgdb -Fv > > portsdb -u > > > When running "pkgdb -Fv" after "make index", I now get: > > > /usr/ports/INDEX:1:Port info line must consist of 10 fields. > [repeats 3 times] > > > > Skip this for now? [yes] > > > Not sure what I should do here. "Make Index" has created a mis- > formatted INDEX file? Sigh. > > > [other error msgs snipped] > > > make_index: no entry for: /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/itk > > > make_index: no entry for: /usr/local > > > Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: cvsup-without-gui-16.1f > > > > > > > Re-cvsup your ports tree and see if this still happens. > > > I just cvsup'd it yesterday, this was the prerequisite to trying to > update portupgrade and the rest of the ports. I'd cvsup the ports tree now, actually. Things get broken, someone complains, if its simple enough, a fix is uploaded, if you're really lucky, two hours later your mirror is updated. Regards, Stacey > > FYI - if I'm not mistaken, "cvsup-without-gui-16.1f" shares the same > code as the "with gui" cvsup port, but with a different build option. > > > -- > Philip J. Koenig > pjklist@ekahuna.com > Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New > Millenium -- Stacey Roberts B.Sc (HONS) Computer Science Web: www.vickiandstacey.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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