From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 2 02:27:46 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 6609316A4CE for ; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 02:27:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19EF943D3F for ; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 02:27:43 -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 i12ARa217699; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 02:27:36 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: r t g tan , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 02:27:32 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <20040130195143.GA93830@seatle.vredesdorp.nl> <20040201212348.GA24109@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040202075512.GA54021@seatle.vredesdorp.nl> In-Reply-To: <20040202075512.GA54021@seatle.vredesdorp.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200402020227.32815.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: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 10:27:46 -0000 On Sunday 01 February 2004 11:55 pm, r t g tan wrote: > On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 01:23:48PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 10:03:30PM +0100, r t g tan wrote: > > > > 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'. > > > > > > > > Kris > > > > > > Hi Kris, > > > > > > The following line from /usr/local/sbin/make_describe_pass1: > > > > > > open("|cd #{dir} && make -k -j3 -f -", 'w') do |w| > > > > > > I changed to: > > > > > > open("|cd #{dir} && make -", 'w') do |w| > > > > > > now portsdb -U is running for quite some time. > > > > > > I have no idea what it is doing though. > > > > No, that's not quite what I said..just remove the -j3 and leave the > > other arguments untouched. > > > > Kris > > Hi Kris, > > I did that at first but the problem still remained. > > At this time I just cvsupped my ports again, and tried > it again with: open("|cd #{dir} && make -k -f -", 'w') do |w| > > Still nu luck, Then why not quit banging you head on a wall and use "make index". Your failure to adapt is spamming the list. Portsdb -U has not produced totally clean INDEX runs since I can remember. Make index, on the other hand, is currently producing clean makes. There are times when one doesn't work and the other does. You just have to not refuse anything but ports/INDEX. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html