Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 23:26:38 +0930 From: Chris Jones <chris@chris-j.net> To: Ron Tarrant <rtarrant@sympatico.ca> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports Update: Failed to Generate INDEX Message-ID: <44FD8216.8070100@chris-j.net> In-Reply-To: <44FD7AD2.5010000@sympatico.ca> References: <44FD7AD2.5010000@sympatico.ca>
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Ron Tarrant wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> While trying to update ports for FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE using this command:
>
> /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu
>
> I got the following error (please see below for the process leading up
> to this):
>
> Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please
> wait.."Makefile", lin
> e 33: Could not find
> /usr/ports/japanese/gnomelibs/../../x11/gnomelibs/Makefile
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 1886: Malformed conditional
> (${X_WINDOW_SYSTEM
> :L} == xfree86-3)
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 1951: Malformed conditional
> (${PERL_LEVEL} >=
> 500600)
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 1960: if-less endif
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2200: Malformed conditional
> (${PREFIX} == ${X1
> 1BASE_REL} || defined(USE_X_PREFIX))
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2203: Malformed conditional
> (${X_WINDOW_SYSTEM
> :L} == xfree86-3)
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2208: if-less elif
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2210: if-less else
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2212: if-less endif
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2213: if-less endif
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2864: Malformed conditional
> (${PREFIX} == /usr
> )
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2866: if-less else
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2868: if-less endif
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2956: Malformed conditional
> (${PREFIX} == /usr
> )
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2958: if-less else
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2960: if-less endif
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5503: Malformed conditional
> ((${PREFIX} != ${L
> OCALBASE_REL} && ${PREFIX} != ${X11BASE_REL} && ${PREFIX} !=
> ${LINUXBASE_REL} &&
> ${PREFIX} != "/usr"))
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5508: if-less endif
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5992: if-less endif
> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> ===> japanese/gnomelibs failed
> *** Error code 1
> 1 error
>
> ********************************************************************
> Before reporting this error, verify that you are running a supported
> version of FreeBSD (see http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/) and that you
> have a complete and up-to-date ports collection. (INDEX builds are
> not supported with partial or out-of-date ports collections -- in
> particular, if you are using cvsup, you must cvsup the "ports-all"
> collection, and have no "refuse" files.) If that is the case, then
> report the failure to ports@FreeBSD.org together with relevant
> details of your ports configuration (including FreeBSD version,
> your architecture, your environment, and your /etc/make.conf
> settings, especially compiler flags and WITH/WITHOUT settings).
>
> Note: the latest pre-generated version of INDEX may be fetched
> automatically with "make fetchindex".
> ********************************************************************
>
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports.
> failed to generate INDEX!
> portsdb: index generation error
>
>
> Process:
>
> cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup
> make install clean
> (reboot)
> cp /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile /root/
>
> I then edited /root/ports-supfile and added the host:
>
> *default host=cvsup12.FreeBSD.org
>
> At first, I commented out all the ports for languages I don't
> understand such as Russian, Japanese, etc. But I got a similar error,
> so I commented out all the individual ports and uncommented ports-all
> to do a complete job of it. That's when I ran portsdb -Uu and got the
> above error.
>
> This is my first time doing this, so I'm sure I've missed something
> somewhere.
>
> -Ron T.
Instead of regenerating the INDEX, why not just download it?
# cd /usr/ports
# make fetchindex
Regards,
Chris Jones
--
Chris Jones
chris@chris-j.net
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