From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Apr 14 3:50:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from rock.ghis.net (rock.ghis.net [209.222.164.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62C8337B752 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 03:50:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from will@blackdawn.com) Received: from argon.blackdawn.com (01-037.dial.008.popsite.net [209.69.194.37]) by rock.ghis.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA92471; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 03:50:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by argon.blackdawn.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3DC941983; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 06:50:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 06:50:27 -0400 From: Will Andrews To: John Reynolds Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make index broken? Message-ID: <20000414065027.B19141@argon.blackdawn.com> References: <14582.44973.654107.980182@whale.home-net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <14582.44973.654107.980182@whale.home-net>; from jjreynold@home.com on Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 10:42:05PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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.. ;) 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. :) > 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 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