Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 06:50:27 -0400 From: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com> To: John Reynolds <jjreynold@home.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make index broken? Message-ID: <20000414065027.B19141@argon.blackdawn.com> In-Reply-To: <14582.44973.654107.980182@whale.home-net>; from jjreynold@home.com on Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 10:42:05PM -0700 References: <14582.44973.654107.980182@whale.home-net>
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On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 10:42:05PM -0700, John Reynolds wrote: > I've got a newly CVSup'ed ports tree and was trying to do "make index" from > /usr/ports and I got this: > > root@whale [/usr/ports]<8># make index > Generating INDEX - please wait..make: don't know how to make describe. Stop Why are you using ``make index'' anyway? The only thing it does is generate INDEX, which isn't awesomely useful for the average person since Satoshi regens it himself every now and then. Overwriting ports/INDEX brings a risk - cvs (or whatever tool you use) may think the previous revision (which is supposed to be on your system) is broken/gone/fubar'd/whatever. The INDEX file is pretty darn big.. ;) <thoughtful> I do suppose perhaps you simply ignore cvs/cvsup on ports/INDEX and regen it yourself every few days or something. That could save download time, but certainly not CPU or I/O time. :) </thoughtful> > At the top of the INDEX file it shows this: > > *** Error code 1||||||| > *** Error code 2||||||| > Stop.||||||| > Stop.||||||| > ||||||| > ||||||| > ||||||| > > How can one debug this? Is this happening to anyone else? It is my suspicion that this is caused by PORTNAME/PORTVERSION. -- Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com> GCS/E/S @d- s+:+>+:- a--->+++ C++ UB++++ P+ L- E--- W+++ !N !o ?K w--- ?O M+ V-- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t++ 5 X++ R+ tv+ b++>++++ DI+++ D+ G++>+++ e->++++ h! r-->+++ y? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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