Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:58:03 +0300 From: Haim Ashkenazi <haim@babysnakes.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports dependency/INDEX errors on 4.10 Message-ID: <pan.2004.07.16.12.58.01.530700@babysnakes.org> References: <pan.2004.07.15.09.26.56.705871@babysnakes.org> <20040715180633.GA85317@pit.databus.com>
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On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:06:33 -0400, Barney Wolff wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:26:57PM +0300, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: >> >> 2. the second problem is that I can't "make index". when I run it, it >> doesn't report any error, but when trying to run "portsman" I get an error >> that "INDEX file seems to be corrupted or is of an unknown format". the >> only way to fix it is to run cvsup, but then the versions I see in >> portsman are old. > > I've seen this problem when cvsup runs after "make index" - patch conflict > stuff is left in the file for you to resolve, and it's not in the right > format for INDEX. If you're going to make your own INDEX, you should > put INDEX in the cvsup refuse file to avoid this. Also, make index will > do odd stuff if you have any ports in the cvsup refuse file, because > there will be dependencies that can't be resolved - and the error messages, > which I think are also left in the generated INDEX, again are not in > the expected INDEX format. thanx for the info. I'll do it. Bye -- Haim
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