Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 17:26:49 -0600 From: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> To: Rishi Chopra <rchopra@cal.berkeley.edu>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating Ports Index Message-ID: <200401051726.49554.racerx@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <3FF9F1D0.1050200@cal.berkeley.edu> References: <3FF9F1D0.1050200@cal.berkeley.edu>
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On Monday 05 January 2004 05:22 pm, Rishi Chopra wrote: > For some reason, I can't seem to update the index for the ports database: > > idfubar# cd /usr/ports > idfubar# make index > Generating INDEX-5 - please wait..perl: not found > perl: not found > Done. Install Perl?! > > I also tried attempting my first 'portsdb -Uu' after a successful CVSUp, > but am running into some problems: > > idfubar# portsdb -Uu > Updating the ports index ... perl: not found > /usr/local/sbin/make_describe_pass2:70:in `write': Broken pipe > (Errno::EPIPE) > from /usr/local/sbin/make_describe_pass2:70:in `puts' > from /usr/local/sbin/make_describe_pass2:70 > failed to generate INDEX! > portsdb: index generation error > > > Can anyone explain why I might be getting these errors? My installation > was a minimal install, do I need to install something else for the 'make > index' command to work properly? > > -R > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Best regards, Chris
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