Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 15:37:31 -0400 From: parv <parv_fm@nospammail.net> To: Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Error messages from portsdb -Uu Message-ID: <20020802193731.GA53336@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20020802155314.00810200@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> References: <3.0.6.32.20020802145055.008044b0@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> <3.0.6.32.20020802145055.008044b0@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> <3.0.6.32.20020802155314.00810200@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th>
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in message <3.0.6.32.20020802155314.00810200@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th>, wrote Roger Merritt thusly... > > At 08:11 PM 8/2/02 +1200, you wrote: > >On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 02:50:55PM +0700, Roger Merritt wrote: > > > >[...] > >> mpt-0.0:"/usr/ports/math/fftw" non-existent -- dependency list incomplete > >> mq3-8_1:"/usr/ports/math/fftw" non-existent -- dependency list incomplete > >> etc. > >> > >> I cvsup the ports regularly, by the way, so I would think my ports tree is > >> complete. What do these error messages mean, and is there anything I can do > >> to stop them? > > > >Just means that the INDEX file hasn't been update properly. Don't > >worry about it. It doesn't affect your ports. as i understand it, some directories are physically missing or "SUBDIR" (in some make file) has non-existent directory(ies). this message comes up for me due to directories missing for most of kde, gnome, & emacs ports as i have them listed in cvsup refuse file & removed from ports tree. i haven't seen/experienced INDEX so broken to be useless (since portsdb -u works after "make index"); it's just that some of the ports will not build due to missing dependencies ... which is deliberate. > Isn't there some way to stop them? you could redirect (code shown for sh-like shells) the errors to /dev/null or a file... cd /usr/ports && make index > .errors 2>&1 && portsdb -u ...but then you may miss more crucial error messages (different than above) which actually fubar INDEX & can hamper niceties like "make search" & usage of portsupgrade itself. > I've seen lots of people praising portupgrade to the skies. Do > they all have to put up with this garbage spewing across their > screen when they do this? problem is not w/ portsupgrade; see above. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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