Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 13:36:52 -0600 From: Stephen Hilton <nospam@hiltonbsd.com> To: "Jonathan T. Sage" <sagejona@msu.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports problems Message-ID: <20031202133652.53b55fee.nospam@hiltonbsd.com> In-Reply-To: <3FCCBDA6.5070302@msu.edu> References: <20031201233315.GA761@lewiz.org> <Pine.OSX.4.58.0312011545530.19663@babelfish.local> <20031201234926.GA850@lewiz.org> <3FCC06DF.4090704@shaw.ca> <44vfozkyqa.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <3FCCBDA6.5070302@msu.edu>
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On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 11:28:22 -0500 "Jonathan T. Sage" <sagejona@msu.edu> wrote: > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > >RYAN vAN GINNEKEN <rmvg@shaw.ca> writes: > > > > > > > >>when i run portsdb -Uu i get many errors like the one below is there > >>anyone who can help me > >> > >>fileroller-2.4.2_1,1:"/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/pango" non-existent -- dependency list incomplete > >> > >> > > > >That just means you didn't have /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/pango in your > >ports tree. Assuming this is intentional (you didn't update the whole > >ports tree for some reason?) then there's no problem. If you wanted > >to update the whole tree, then you need to figure out what you did > >wrong with your update operation (e.g., maybe you need to get rid of a > >refuse file for the ports collection). > > > Also note, that there errors are not completely unheard of. I run a > ports cvsup nightly, update the index database, and send the output of > portversion to myself. looking back in my logs, it looks as if i almost > always have at least a few of these types of errors Try using 'make index" then 'portsdb -u' instead, this seems to almost always give me better results. Set your /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf variables appropriately. Regards, Stephen Hilton nospam@hiltonbsd.com
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