Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 01:06:23 +0000 (UTC) From: Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: broken ports index Message-ID: <loom.20040511T025853-777@post.gmane.org>
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Hi,
Someone asked me today, "how is it possible that I get 'package supercedes port'
when I run pkg_version or portversion? The only thing I've been doing is
updating my ports with cvsup"
I thought this was a very good question, especially as it then made me notice
that I was getting the same on one of my machines. So I had a bit of a google
and found a post that suggested I should do:
cd /usr/ports
make index
I tried this, and got this result:
$ sudo make index
Generating INDEX-5 - please wait..===> comms/gnokii failed:
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.gnome.mk", line 8: Malformed conditional
(${_USE_GNOME_ALL:Mglib12}=="")
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.gnome.mk", line 8: Need an operator
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.gnome.mk", line 8: Malformed conditional
(${_USE_GNOME_ALL:Mgtk12}=="")
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.gnome.mk", line 8: Need an operator
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 1520: if-less endif
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 1520: Need an operator
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 4830: if-less endif
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 4830: Need an operator
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
*** 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. If so, then report
the failure to ports@FreeBSD.org together with relevant details of
your ports configuration (including FreeBSD version, environment and
/etc/make.conf settings).
********************************************************************
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports.
So I did a cvsup in the hope that it would have been a momentary problem that
got fixed, but this does not appear to be the case. Now my pkg_version and
portversion scripts do not work (they give similar errors to above).
Was this a bad thing to do?
How do I recover from it? I do have backups, but I would like to know which
files to restore. Or I could just nuke /usr/ports and cvsup them again.
[andy@laudanum ports]$ uname -a
FreeBSD laudanum.strugglers.net 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1 #0:
Wed Mar 3 02:18:05 GMT 2004
root@laudanum.strugglers.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LAUDANUM i386
[andy@laudanum ports]$ cat /etc/make.conf
CPUTYPE=p2
# -- use.perl generated deltas -- #
# Created: Wed Feb 4 03:36:35 2004
# Setting to use base perl from ports:
PERL_VER=5.8.2
PERL_VERSION=5.8.2
PERL_ARCH=mach
NOPERL=yo
NO_PERL=yo
NO_PERL_WRAPPER=yo
Thanks,
Andy
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