Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 14:02:17 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Robert English <drakcap@pacbell.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: INDEX fails at /usr/ports/palm Message-ID: <200305071402.17137.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20030507203331.52860.qmail@web80403.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030507203331.52860.qmail@web80403.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wednesday 07 May 2003 01:33 pm, Robert English wrote: > 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. I did selective rm -rf *'s because I didn't want distfiles and packages/All to be removed. I haven't had a failure like this for months. Doing it every 2 weeks would be a lot of unnecessary processing to my way of thinking. I follow the premis of "don't fix something that isn't broken". Kent > > --- 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 -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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