Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 09:30:25 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Anthony Edwards <anthony.edwards@uk.easynet.net> Subject: Re: portsdb -Uu error Message-ID: <200406290930.25879.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20040629161139.GA5153@omega.noc.uk.easynet.net> References: <20040629161139.GA5153@omega.noc.uk.easynet.net>
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On Tuesday 29 June 2004 09:11 am, Anthony Edwards wrote: > This looks to be a fairly straightforward error: > > ---- begin error message ---- > fishcat# portsdb -Uu > Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please > wait..drweb_postfix-4.29.12f: "/usr/ports/security/drwebd" > non-existent -- dependency list incomplete > ===> security/drweb-postfix failed > *** 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 (INDEX builds are > not supported with partial or out-of-date ports collections). 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). > ******************************************************************** > > Stop in /usr/ports. > failed to generate INDEX! > portsdb: index generation error > ---- end error message ---- > > bash-2.05b$ pwd > /usr/ports/security > bash-2.05b$ ls | more > [...] > dropbear > drweb > drweb-postfix > drweb-qmail > drweb-sendmail > dsniff > [...] > > As the portsdb -Uu error message states, /usr/ports/security/drwebd > is non-existent (at least following a cvsup of the ports tree today, > I am not sure if it was there before) and so the portsdb -Uu run > fails with the error message shown above. > > My FreeBSD version is RELENG_4 (FreeBSD-STABLE). > > What is the fix for this please? Waiting until a new cvsup corrects > the error above, or...? If you follow ports, I was told you also should also follow cvs-all. It was fixed about an hour ago. So, it should have made it to your favorite cvsup-mirror. A faster fix is to edit the drweb_postfix make file and change the drwebd entry on the PORTSDIR entry to just drweb. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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