From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 2 13:58:16 2004 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> 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 8A29E16A4CE for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 13:58:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4CDD43D3F for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 13:58:11 -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 i12Lvj209927; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 13:57:46 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: r t g tan <rotan@seatle.demon.nl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 13:57:43 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <20040130195143.GA93830@seatle.vredesdorp.nl> <200402020227.32815.kstewart@owt.com> <20040202204500.GA82776@seatle.vredesdorp.nl> In-Reply-To: <20040202204500.GA82776@seatle.vredesdorp.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200402021357.43634.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 <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 21:58:16 -0000 On Monday 02 February 2004 12:45 pm, r t g tan wrote: > > 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. > > > > make index fails as well with a bunch of make_index: no entrie > messages. > > I guess Ill leave it at this waiting for it to get fixed. > You must be not cvsuping everything. I just updated my ports and had no errors with make index. I log everything and I haven't had an error message from make index going back to 30 Jan. I recently deleted everything before that date. Many of these error will creep in if you don't cvsup ports-all. The reason you refuse ports/INDEX is that cvsup will recognize that you replaced INDEX and download an old copy. That takes time even over my 100mps network. Since you are going to replace it by running make index or portsdb -U, you might as well save your bandwidth by refusing it. FWIW, I use both methods. I prefer make index but there are times when it simply dies and portsdb -U will produce useful output. It may not be complete but I may see 10,000+ ports instead of the 300 that make index produced. It pays to be flexible here but there are days when nothing works and the only way is to manually update the port. I track freebsd-ports and frequently see a message from Kris' script before my cron job port update complains or dies from the same reason(s). Frequently, these messages go away in a matter of hours. Sometimes some port committer deserves a pointy hat but that goes with the territory. Any day that you don't make a mistake on a computer is a day that you didn't try to learn anything new. The port committers just get to make their mistake(s) where the whole world can see and all they can do is grin about it :). Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html