From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 30 13:42:14 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 38CCC16A4CE for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 13:42:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 010EB43D45 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 13:42:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.11.6p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id i0ULg1213965; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 13:42:01 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: Kris Kennaway , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 13:42:00 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <20040130195143.GA93830@seatle.vredesdorp.nl> <20040130212826.GA86385@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20040130212826.GA86385@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401301342.00961.kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: portsdb -U fails 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: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 21:42:14 -0000 On Friday 30 January 2004 01:28 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 08:51:43PM +0100, r t g tan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Have done at least the following: > > 1 - fresh ports cvsup for all the ports > > 2 - rm /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db > > 3 - pkgdb -F > > > > However portsdb -U fails and generates a lot of > > error messages like the following: > > > > *** Error code 2: malformed entry: *** Error code 2 > > *** Error code 2: malformed entry: *** Error code 2 > > *** Error code 2: malformed entry: *** Error code 2 > > cd: can't cd to wmthemeinstall: malformed entry: cd: can't cd to > > wmthemeinstall cd: can't cd to wmx: malformed entry: cd: can't cd > > to wmx cd: can't cd to xfce: malformed entry: cd: can't cd to xfce > > > > What is corrupted, and how can I fix this? > > portsdb -U is broken - I sent mail to the author the other day, but > didn't receive a reply yet. In the meantime, you can edit > /usr/local/sbin/make_describe_pass1 and change the 'make -j3' to > 'make'. Has your make index patch been added to the system? I didn't get 43% but 1/3 faster was significant. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html