From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 17 05:03:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C83716A4CE for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 05:03:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from stjohn.stjohn.ac.th (stjohn.stjohn.ac.th [202.21.144.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A39B743D1D for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 05:03:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th) Received: from tulip.stjohn.ac.th ([203.151.134.104]) by stjohn.stjohn.ac.th (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA05917; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:00:34 +0700 (ICT) Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20040617115636.00a2e990@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: stjohn.stjohn.ac.th:mcrogerm@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:02:19 +0700 To: Mark Linimon From: Roger Merritt In-Reply-To: References: <5.2.0.9.0.20040617084213.00a201d0@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Index generation error X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 05:03:17 -0000 At 09:43 AM 6/17/04, you wrote: >*********************** >No virus was detected in the attachment no filename > >Your mail has been scanned by InterScan. >***********-*********** > > >On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Roger Merritt wrote: > > > >[root@kepler:/usr/ports]# portsdb -U > > >Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please > > >wait..rasmol-2.7.2_1: "/usr/ports/devel/imake" non-existent -- dependency > > >list incomplete > > >===> biology/rasmol failed > > >*** Error code 1 > > >1 error > >This is because devel/imake was removed, as it seemed that no port >depended on it (according to INDEX). However, there was a 'stealth >dependency' on XFree86 version 3, which few people seem to still be >using. > >A recent fix to bsd.port.mk was supposed to fix this dependency. >However, I am now beginning to think that my removal of devel/imake >was a mistake and should be backed out. I suppose it depends on >how many people really are still using XFree86 version 3. > >At this point this needs to be a portmgr@ call as to whether we >try to continue to try to fix this in bsd.port.mk, or simply >reinstate devel/imake until whatever time we remove version 3. > >mcl Ahh, thanks for the explanation. I thought I had seen something about "imake", maybe in the 'questions' mailing list. OK, so I'll just wait a few days and cvsup the ports tree again. -- Roger