Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 13:16:40 +0100 (BST) From: Vince Hoffman <jhary@unsane.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: i think i've broken portinstall Message-ID: <20040810123108.C8250@unsane.co.uk>
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I just went to install netcat and portinstal seems to have broken, not sure when or how though. the process i use (as normal) <root@lobster> [/root] [12:30] #cd /usr/ports/net/netcat/ <snip reading the pkg-desc etc> <root@lobster> [/usr/ports/net/netcat] [12:30] #portinstall netcat ** No such installed package nor such port called 'netcat' is found. fair enough this happens sometimes. so... <root@lobster> [/usr/ports/net/netcat] [12:30] #portinstall net/netcat <root@lobster> [/usr/ports/net/netcat] [12:30] # ok i dont understand what happened here. I have a cron job update my ports tree by cvsup every night then run a portsdb -Uu after each update, a manual portsdb -Uu gives me a bunch of errors from MailScanner and others (dependency list incomplete errors so not too big a deal.) but also lots (more than a couple of screenfuls) of lines like this /usr/ports/INDEX-5:10775:Port info line must consist of 10 fields. /usr/ports/INDEX-5:10776:Port info line must consist of 10 fields. /usr/ports/INDEX-5:10777:Port info line must consist of 10 fields. /usr/ports/INDEX-5:10778:Port info line must consist of 10 fields. /usr/ports/INDEX-5:10779:Port info line must consist of 10 fields. should i just blow away my ports tree and re-CVSUP the whole thing ? Vince
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