Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:10:16 -0500 From: epilogue <epilogue@allstream.net> To: "Cody Holland" <cholland@redmoonbroadband.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating Ports Message-ID: <20050216191016.5662bd7a@localhost> In-Reply-To: <4B3EE484EEA4F344BBB62F83164899860F6527@corpsrv.RedMoon.local> References: <4B3EE484EEA4F344BBB62F83164899860F6527@corpsrv.RedMoon.local>
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:17:09 -0600 "Cody Holland" <cholland@redmoonbroadband.com> wrote: > After running cvsup, I then ran portdb -Uu and received the following > error. > > Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please > wait..gnustep-slideshow-0.3: "/usr/ports/graphics/slideshowkit" > non-existent -- dependency list incomplete > ===> graphics/gnustep-slideshow failed > *** Error code 1 > 1 error > > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports. > failed to generate INDEX! > portsdb: index generation error > > How do I fix this? hello cody, note: this is not a fix, but an alternative: rather than building your copy of INDEX locally, you can cd /usr/ports && make fetchindex this will download a precompiled copy INDEX. while this one is not guaranteed to *exactly* match your local tree (although it might), it is sufficiently fresh that you are not likely to bump into any INDEX related problems. if i had to guess as to its reliability, i would say that it works 99.978592% of the time. this precompiled copy is rebuilt by the servers every 2 hours (or less), so if you ever do bump into a problem, you can just wait a bit and pull down a newer version (or build it locally). the advantage you ask? well, downloading the INDEX takes only the time required for your connection to pull down a ~700 k file, whereas building INDEX locally usually takes 30-60 minutes, not to mention, quite a few CPU cycles. anyhoo. food for thought. cheers, epi
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