From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 7 15:44:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EDFC37B401 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 15:44:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37CBF43E42 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 15:44:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA23121; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 15:44:37 -0800 Message-ID: <3DCAFAE3.2030103@owt.com> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 15:44:35 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Emmanuel Rens Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: many ports refuse to make References: <9BF1ABD0-F2A8-11D6-AAC5-000A27AFC7DE@wanadoo.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Emmanuel Rens wrote: > thank you, I would appreciate very much if you can give me some more > advice on updating the INDEX because I don't find mention of this > procedure in the Handbook nor in CVSup FAQ I was trying to see where a good reference was and was out of time before I even got started. If you do a man ports, one of the make options is "index". cd /usr/ports make index or portsdb -uU if you use portupgrade. I use portupgrade and added ports/INDEX to my refuse file. I upgrade my ports with a script and I run portsdb -uU everytime I do an update. Kent > > On Friday, November 8, 2002, at 12:13 AM, Kent Stewart wrote: > >> >> Emmanuel Rens wrote: >> >>> Hi, I upgraded recently to stable from FreeBSD 4.4 and made a cvsup >>> ports-all, but now many ports refuse to install for different >>> reasons, often related to GLIB 2.2 or automake. For example I can't >>> install sawfish2 or kde3. I've listed hereafter some of the error >>> messages I get. Thank you in advance if you can bring me some help. >> >> >> Did you rebuild your INDEX after you cvsuped ports-all? If you didn't, >> you have an INDEX that dates back to 4.7-release and a lot of changes >> have been made since then. >> >> Kent > > > > . > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message