Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 22:22:27 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com> To: Chris Hodgins <chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk> Cc: "Kjell B." <homebell@telia.com> Subject: Re: Error running cvsup and portsdb Message-ID: <20050312222227.70f428b6@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <42334F55.9090909@cis.strath.ac.uk> References: <42334C34.3000805@telia.com> <42334F55.9090909@cis.strath.ac.uk>
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On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 20:21:41 +0000 Chris Hodgins <chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk> wrote: > Kjell B. wrote: > > I have tried to run 'cvsup -h cvsup2.se.freebsd.org ports-supfile' > > followed by 'portsdb -uU' a number of times today. They've all failed with: > > > > <quote> > > ------- > > Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..make: > > don't know how to make describe. Stop > > ===> multimedia/nautilus-media failed > > *** Error code 1 > > 1 error [ ... ] > I think most people use "make fetchindex" to update the index now. It > is a lot faster and you are much more likely to have a correct index > file. To use it, remove the old index and do this: > > # cd /usr/ports > # cvsup -h cvsup2.se.freebsd.org ports-supfile > # make fetchindex > # portsdb -u > > Now you have a reasonably up-tp-date (worst case 2 hours out) index > file. This should be a lot faster than building it yourself. I believe > you can also use portmanager which does all upgrading without the > index file. In this case no, INDEX was broken, but marcus@ just committed my patch and OP should re-cvsup. Or use sysutils/p5-FreeBSD-Portindex -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"
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