From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 11 09:48:58 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 66ED616A4CE for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 09:48:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60F2C43D41 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 09:48:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rperry4@earthlink.net) Received: from dialup-171.75.71.101.dial1.weehawken.level3.net ([171.75.71.101] helo=earthlink.net) by albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1AqyTn-0002Zd-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 09:48:57 -0800 Message-ID: <402A6B2D.90003@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 12:49:33 -0500 From: Bob Perry User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040208 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Porstdb -uU Continues to Fail? 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: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 17:48:58 -0000 Hello, I run FreeBSD 4.8 RELEASE-p13 0#. Just ran: /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L 2 -z /etc/cvsupfile && /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -uU CVSup ran successfully but portsdb -uU seemed to have a problem. Following is the output: Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait.. ===> net/tkabbe r failed: make: illegal option -- C usage: make [-Beiknqrstv] [-D variable] [-d flags] [-E variable] [-f makefile] [-I directory] [-j max_jobs] [-m directory] [-V variable] [variable=value] [target ...] "Makefile", line 17: warning: "make -C /usr/ports/net/tkabber/../../devel/tcllib -V PORTVERSION" returned non-zero status ===> security/portaudit failed: "Makefile", line 23: warning: "/usr/sbin/pkg_info -qP 2>/dev/null" returned non- zero status Done. done The archives reported a number of problems recently with portsdb but I didn't see any reflecting this error message. If the problems is on-going and make index: cd /usr/ports make index is the solution please let me know and I'll try that. Secondly, I'm not an experience systems administrator or hacker and would like to know which of the commands, make index or portsdb -uU is most reliable? Thanks, Bob Perry -- FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p13 0#