Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 20:50:13 -0800 From: "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm@inbox.lv> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portsdb and portupgrade causes errors Message-ID: <200412232050.14601.ringworm@inbox.lv> In-Reply-To: <BAY103-DAV168EF45207FA3AA7CF758AA1A60@phx.gbl> References: <BAY103-DAV168EF45207FA3AA7CF758AA1A60@phx.gbl>
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On Thursday 23 December 2004 08:37 pm, whitevamp wrote: > i dont know weathere this place to be posting this to or not .. if > not point me in the right direction to go.. > > i have just updated my system to 5.3 frrom 4.9 and now every time i > goto run portsdb , or portupgrade iget the same error message.and i > also have a nother 5.3 box that was a fresh install of 5.3 thats > getting the same error > > I have checked this and iam doing a cvsup src all , and i have no > refuse files in any one of the conf files IE: make.conf , > pkgtools.conf (INDEX builds are > not supported with partial or out-of-date ports collections -- in > particular, if you are using cvsup, you must cvsup the "ports-all" > collection, and have no "refuse" files.) > and i have wiped out my intire ports tree IE: /usr/ports/* , and > recvsuped it with the same error showing up > > > so what would be giveing me this exact same error on both boxes?? > portsdb -Ufu > Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please > wait..fr-mozilla-flp-1.7.3_1: "/usr/ports/www/mozilla-gtk2" > non-existent -- dependency list incomplete ===> french/mozilla-flp > failed > *** Error code 1 > 1 error > > ******************************************************************** > Before reporting this error, verify that you are running a supported > version of FreeBSD (see http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/) and that you > have a complete and up-to-date ports collection. (INDEX builds are > not supported with partial or out-of-date ports collections -- in > particular, if you are using cvsup, you must cvsup the "ports-all" > collection, and have no "refuse" files.) If that is the case, then > report the failure to ports@FreeBSD.org together with relevant > details of your ports configuration (including FreeBSD version, > your architecture, your environment, and your /etc/make.conf > settings, especially compiler flags and WITH/WITHOUT settings). > > Note: the latest pre-generated version of INDEX may be fetched > automatically with "make fetchindex". > ******************************************************************** > > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports. > failed to generate INDEX! > portsdb: index generation error > > vampextream# uname -a > FreeBSD vampextream.com 5.3-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p2 #3: Wed > Dec 8 20:33:13 PST 2004 > root@vampextream.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/VAMPEXTREAM i386 > > > if theres any othere information that you need just let me know . > > and thankx for any help on this issue , inadvance. People usually report this sort of thing in freebsd-questions@freebsd.org or ports@freebsd.org. These days it is best to run make fetch index from /usr/ports after you've run cvsup rather than build INDEX-5 for yourself. -Mike
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