Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 13:33:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Robert English <drakcap@pacbell.net> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: INDEX fails at /usr/ports/palm Message-ID: <20030507203331.52860.qmail@web80403.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <200305071156.05321.kstewart@owt.com>
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Thanks for the confirm - it looks like an occasional wiping of the ports and a complete refetch of the ports tree would be a "Good Thing To Do" (TM). Not sure how often to do that; most of the time this is not an issue at all, so I can do a normal daily cvsup and this won't be a problem. Maybe once every few weeks run a cvsup script that doesn't have the "default tag" line, effectively deleting the local copy of the ports tree, and let it download a fresh copy of the whole tree. --- Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> wrote: > On Tuesday 06 May 2003 05:44 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 05:29:37PM -0700, Robert English > wrote: > > > Hello - > > > > > > just a few minutes ago, after doing the regular daily > cvsup, the > > > index compile broke - it left this message at the top of > the > > > resulting index file: > > > > > > *** Error code 1||||||| > > > Stop in /usr/ports/palm.||||||| > > > Stop in /usr/ports.||||||| > > > Stop.||||||| > > > There is no COMMENT variable defined||||||| > > > for this port. Please, rectify this. > > > > Clean INDEX builds appear to be completing successfully, so > the most > > likely explanation is that you have something stale in palm/ > that is > > causing the error. Try 'make describe' in /usr/ports/palm > to track > > down what is failing. > > > > Deleting /usr/ports and recvsuping works. If I have anything > stale in my > /usr/ports tree, it is because it was updated between some > changes that > deleted ports and left the ../work/ with old comments in them. > > FWIW, I went through them last night and there were 145 ports > that had > either a Makefile and no ../work or a ../work and no Makefile. > A > current cvsup of ports-all from my local cvs-mirror works. It > was the > system that was cvsuped almost everyday that had massive > problems. I > think the cvs changes that deleted these ports was > modified/eliminated > too soon. > > Kent > > -- > Kent Stewart > Richland, WA > > http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html >
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