From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 13 22:52:49 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 9CEBA16A4CE for ; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 22:52:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27AEC43D39 for ; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 22:52:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Sat, 13 Nov 2004 16:49:13 -0600 Message-ID: <41969047.1070703@daleco.biz> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 16:52:55 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041023 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: atk2@arctic.org References: <20041113154332.7839.qmail@twinlark.arctic.org> In-Reply-To: <20041113154332.7839.qmail@twinlark.arctic.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Nov 2004 22:49:14.0437 (UTC) FILETIME=[FFC0FF50:01C4C9D2] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade problem in freebsd 4.10 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, 13 Nov 2004 22:52:49 -0000 atk2@arctic.org wrote: >Ok thanks for the detail response. I guess my confusion came from several >places - the handbook explicity gives an example where you can refuse >ports that aren't relevant to your environment (i refuse several such as >japanese, chinese)... > > > Hmm. I wonder if we should consider mentioning that you don't want to do this if you intend to make index ... I'll mention it on doc@ and see what comes up. >Can you explain (if you know off hand) why make fetchindex would fix the >problem (it did without adding the ports)? > > > Yes. "make fetchindex" downloaded a copy of the complete index database from one of the ftp servers, thus bypassing the problem of "make"ing it on your box. >As a side but unrelated question it seems that recent updates to the port >colleciton (such as mozilla, mplayer and netscape) have bad values (either >size of time stamps) for the objects they are to fetch - do you know why >this is happening (aka is it specific to me?) > >thanks, >Alan > > Hmm. Is that "local modification time does not match remote"? If you have downloads from fetch that have been interrupted (as I do sometimes at home where I have a slow and occasionally unreliable ppp link), you can fix that one by deleting the aborted files from /usr/ports/distfiles and running "make install" or "make install clean" (or whatever) again. HTH, KDK