Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 13:15:46 GMT From: James Snow <snow@teardrop.org> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/69097: portupgrade's portsdb can't run without Perl, but doesn't install it under FreeBSD 5.x. Message-ID: <200407151315.i6FDFkaq048849@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200407151320.i6FDKL1W051121@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 69097 >Category: ports >Synopsis: portupgrade's portsdb can't run without Perl, but doesn't install it under FreeBSD 5.x. >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Jul 15 13:20:20 GMT 2004 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: James Snow >Release: 5.2.1-p9 >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD laptop.teardrop.org 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 #1: Thu Jul 15 01:12:40 EDT 2004 root@laptop.teardrop.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LAPTOP i38 >Description: The 'portsdb' part of 'portupgrade' requires Perl (in a roundabout way) but the portupgrade port doesn't install it. >How-To-Repeat: On a freshly installed system, cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade && make install && rehash && portsdb -Uu Or, move all instances of Perl out of your path and run portsdb: laptop# portsdb -Uu Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..perl: not found ===> arabic/ae_fonts_mono failed *** Error code 1 perl: not found ===> accessibility/at-spi failed *** Error code 1 2 errors ******************************************************************** Before reporting this error, verify that you are running a supported version of FreeBSD (see http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/) and that you have a complete and up-to-date ports collection (INDEX builds are not supported with partial or out-of-date ports collections). If so, then report the failure to ports@FreeBSD.org together with relevant details of your ports configuration (including FreeBSD version, environment and /etc/make.conf settings). ******************************************************************** *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports. failed to generate INDEX! portsdb: index generation error >Fix: cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5 && make install >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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