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Date:      Thu, 26 Dec 2002 14:31:18 -0800
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        pjklist@ekahuna.com, stacey@vickiandstacey.com
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: More Portupgrade questions
Message-ID:  <200212261431.18359.kstewart@owt.com>
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 Thursday 26 December 2002 02:21 pm, 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.

That was when "make index" was broken. If you do it today, you don't see=20
that. You get a message about generating the index and that is it.

>
> 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]s
>
> > 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.
>
> 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.

I have without-gui installed. I log everything and there isn't any point=20
to building the gui and then running it from a shell script that tees=20
the output.

FWIW, I just cvsuped ports-all and I didn't get any messages using "make=20
index". I would redo your port cvsup.

Kent

--=20
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html


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