Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 22:03:30 +0100 From: r t g tan <rotan@seatle.demon.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portsdb -U fails Message-ID: <20040131210329.GA1385@seatle.vredesdorp.nl> In-Reply-To: <20040130212826.GA86385@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20040130195143.GA93830@seatle.vredesdorp.nl> <20040130212826.GA86385@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 01:28:26PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 08:51:43PM +0100, r t g tan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Have done at least the following:
> > 1 - fresh ports cvsup for all the ports
> > 2 - rm /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db
> > 3 - pkgdb -F
> >
> > However portsdb -U fails and generates a lot of
> > error messages like the following:
> >
> > *** Error code 2: malformed entry: *** Error code 2
> > *** Error code 2: malformed entry: *** Error code 2
> > *** Error code 2: malformed entry: *** Error code 2
> > cd: can't cd to wmthemeinstall: malformed entry: cd: can't cd to wmthemeinstall
> > cd: can't cd to wmx: malformed entry: cd: can't cd to wmx
> > cd: can't cd to xfce: malformed entry: cd: can't cd to xfce
> >
> > What is corrupted, and how can I fix this?
>
> portsdb -U is broken - I sent mail to the author the other day, but
> didn't receive a reply yet. In the meantime, you can edit
> /usr/local/sbin/make_describe_pass1 and change the 'make -j3' to
> 'make'.
>
> Kris
Hi Kris,
The following line from /usr/local/sbin/make_describe_pass1:
open("|cd #{dir} && make -k -j3 -f -", 'w') do |w|
I changed to:
open("|cd #{dir} && make -", 'w') do |w|
now portsdb -U is running for quite some time.
I have no idea what it is doing though.
robert
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