Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 15:44:35 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Emmanuel Rens <rens.emmanuel@wanadoo.fr> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: many ports refuse to make Message-ID: <3DCAFAE3.2030103@owt.com> References: <9BF1ABD0-F2A8-11D6-AAC5-000A27AFC7DE@wanadoo.fr>
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Emmanuel Rens wrote: > thank you, I would appreciate very much if you can give me some more > advice on updating the INDEX because I don't find mention of this > procedure in the Handbook nor in CVSup FAQ I was trying to see where a good reference was and was out of time before I even got started. If you do a man ports, one of the make options is "index". cd /usr/ports make index or portsdb -uU if you use portupgrade. I use portupgrade and added ports/INDEX to my refuse file. I upgrade my ports with a script and I run portsdb -uU everytime I do an update. Kent > > On Friday, November 8, 2002, at 12:13 AM, Kent Stewart wrote: > >> >> Emmanuel Rens wrote: >> >>> Hi, I upgraded recently to stable from FreeBSD 4.4 and made a cvsup >>> ports-all, but now many ports refuse to install for different >>> reasons, often related to GLIB 2.2 or automake. For example I can't >>> install sawfish2 or kde3. I've listed hereafter some of the error >>> messages I get. Thank you in advance if you can bring me some help. >> >> >> Did you rebuild your INDEX after you cvsuped ports-all? If you didn't, >> you have an INDEX that dates back to 4.7-release and a lot of changes >> have been made since then. >> >> Kent > > > > . > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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