From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 10 9:53:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B4D437B400 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 09:53:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from boris.st.hmc.edu (boris.ST.HMC.Edu [134.173.63.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D1D243E3B for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 09:53:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff@unixconsults.com) Received: from boris.st.hmc.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by boris.st.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g8AGrGgS065759; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 09:53:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jeff@localhost) by boris.st.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g8AGrDDs065756; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 09:53:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff@unixconsults.com) X-Authentication-Warning: boris.st.hmc.edu: jeff owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 09:53:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Jirsa X-X-Sender: jeff@boris.st.hmc.edu To: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions 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 In-Reply-To: <1031675177.345.42.camel@Demon.vickiandstacey.com> Message-ID: <20020910095022.C65734-100000@boris.st.hmc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter on boris.st.hmc.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ 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 -- Jeff Jirsa jeff@unixconsults.com -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message