Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 16:52:55 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: atk2@arctic.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade problem in freebsd 4.10 Message-ID: <41969047.1070703@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <20041113154332.7839.qmail@twinlark.arctic.org> References: <20041113154332.7839.qmail@twinlark.arctic.org>
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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
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