Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:50:33 -0600 From: "Donald J. O'Neill" <donaldj1066@fastmail.fm> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Cody Holland <cholland@redmoonbroadband.com> Subject: Re: Updating Ports Message-ID: <200502162150.34254.donaldj1066@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <20050216191016.5662bd7a@localhost> References: <4B3EE484EEA4F344BBB62F83164899860F6527@corpsrv.RedMoon.local> <20050216191016.5662bd7a@localhost>
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On Wednesday 16 February 2005 06:10 pm, epilogue wrote: > 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 > Gee, I did that this morning - make fetchindex that is - and when I ran "portversion -vL=" I learned that 14 of the installed packages were to advanced and I needed to go backwards. I wonder when that INDEX-5 was built. Three ways to get around it: 1) rm -r /usr/ports/graphics/gnustep-slideshow Then run portdb 2) There is an error in the Makefile, go in and fix it. It was reported on ports@ 3) Ignore it until it's fixed in a couple of days. Don -- Donald J. O'Neill donaldj1066@fastmail.fm I'm not totally useless, I can be used as a bad example.
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