From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 7 22:35:50 2003 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 98BD416A4CE for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 22:35:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from gv.elitists.org (gv.elitists.org [64.40.88.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D19C43F3F for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 22:35:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsdlists@elitists.org) Received: from [192.168.1.103] (h202.elitists.org [64.40.88.202]) by gv.elitists.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7C8DEC1B for ; Sat, 8 Nov 2003 00:36:24 +0000 (GMT) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1331 Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 00:36:04 -0600 From: "F. Even" To: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20031105042901.E2B5916A4D2@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: revived ports collection, errors galore 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: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 06:35:50 -0000 I am running a FreeBSD 4.0 box. I had never updated the ports collection, so it just kind of stopped working over time. This last week, I got sick of installing some things by src, so I wiped out the ports collection, and did a cvsup to create a new, modern, up to date ports collection. I executed "cvsup /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile", with ports-supfile looking like this: *default host=cvsup10.us.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=. *default delete use-rel-suffix ports-base ports-dns ports-mail ports-net ports-security ports-shells ports-sysutils ports-www Now, when I try to make anything, I get many errors. I was trying to make openssh-portable in this example (more after massive error dump): [errors below] [root@cerebus:/usr/ports/security/openssh-portable] make Unknown modifier 'C' Unknown modifier '[' Unknown modifier ']' Unknown modifier 'C' Unknown modifier '[' Unknown modifier ']' Unknown modifier 'C' Unknown modifier '[' Unknown modifier ']' Unknown modifier 'C' Unknown modifier '[' Unknown modifier ']' Unknown modifier 'C' Unknown modifier '[' Unknown modifier ']' Unknown modifier 'C' Unknown modifier '[' Unknown modifier ']' Unknown modifier 'C' Unknown modifier '[' Unknown modifier ']' Unknown modifier 'C' Unknown modifier '[' Unknown modifier ']' Unknown modifier '/' Unknown modifier '/' Unknown modifier 'C' Unknown modifier '[' Unknown modifier ']' Unknown modifier 'C' Unknown modifier '[' Unknown modifier ']' Unknown modifier 'C' Unknown modifier '[' Unknown modifier ']' Unknown modifier 'C' Unknown modifier '[' Unknown modifier ']' Unknown modifier 'C' Unknown modifier '[' Unknown modifier ']' Unknown modifier 'U' Unknown modifier 'U' [snip about 100 more "unknown modifier U's"] Unknown modifier 'L' Unknown modifier 'L' Unknown modifier 'L' Unknown modifier 'L' Unknown modifier 'L' Unknown modifier 'L' "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 10: Malformed conditional (${XFREE86_HTML_MAN:L} == "yes") Unknown modifier 'L' "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 10: Need an operator "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 4485: if-less endif "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 4485: Need an operator make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue [/errors] SO...this is annoying....but I figure I'll just grab the packages then and install them. Ah yes.....it gets better: [root@cerebus:/apps/pkgs] pkg_add openssh-portable-3.7.1p2.tgz pkg_add: bad command '@conflicts openssh-3.*' [root@cerebus:/apps/pkgs] pkg_add openssh-3.6.1_5.tgz pkg_add: bad command '@conflicts openssh-portable-*' OK....I cannot for the life of me even figure out what is going on here much less know how to fix it. Can anyone illuminate this topic and help me make my ports collection work? I would be highly appreciative. THANKS!! Frank