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Date:      Tue, 10 Sep 2002 09:53:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jeff Jirsa <jeff@unixconsults.com>
To:        sroberts@dsl.pipex.com
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Ports Tree broken, how do I get a new one? - WAS portsdb -Uu returns multiple "make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue: malformed entry: make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue" st
Message-ID:  <20020910095022.C65734-100000@boris.st.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1031675177.345.42.camel@Demon.vickiandstacey.com>

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[ cc -ports trimmed, this is a simple question ]

On 10 Sep 2002, Stacey Roberts wrote:

> I posted my earlier question to the list, and got no replies.., fair
> enough.
>
> Rather than waste time on analysing this, could someone simply tell me
> how to / if its possible to re-install a fresh copy of the ports tree,
> please?
>
> After running cvsup on my ports tree yesterday its gotten corrupted
> somehow. Now even running "make clean" in /usr/ports crashes with
> similar errors. So if this is something new / too simple for anyone to
> look into, an answer to my second post is appreciated.
>

The sledgehammer fixall for ports is:

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports.tar.gz

- Jeff

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Jeff Jirsa
jeff@unixconsults.com

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