Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 21:51:06 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther_Dippe?= <dippe@ncm.gu.se> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: portsdb: index generation error Message-ID: <153EDC38-2DDA-11D9-9197-000393555914@ncm.gu.se> In-Reply-To: <20041103182209.GA78103@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <654F4C4B-2DA0-11D9-9197-000393555914@ncm.gu.se> <20041103163746.GA56359@xor.obsecurity.org> <DD884F02-2DBB-11D9-9197-000393555914@ncm.gu.se> <20041103173147.GA67301@xor.obsecurity.org> <E6569EE0-2DC3-11D9-9197-000393555914@ncm.gu.se> <20041103182209.GA78103@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On 2004-11-03, at 19.22, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 07:12:19PM +0100, G?nther Dippe wrote: >> On 2004-11-03, at 18.31, Kris Kennaway wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 06:14:48PM +0100, G?nther Dippe wrote: >>>> On 2004-11-03, at 17.37, Kris Kennaway wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 02:58:10PM +0100, G?nther Dippe wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I downloaded a fresh ports.tar.gz and unpacked it (FreeBSD 5.1). >>>>> >>>>>> ****************************************************************** >>>>>> ** >>>>>> Before reporting this error.... >>>>>> <snip> >>>>> >>>>> Er, and what did the <snip> say? Error messages are there for a >>>>> reason, you'd do well to read them! >>>>> >>>>> Kris >>>> >>>> Hi Kris, hi all, >>>> The snipped info was only a general note what I should do before >>>> reporting an error (any kind of error). >>> >>> Yes, so why didn't you follow the directions? >>> >>> Kris >> >> I'm not sure I understand. From what I see I do have a supported >> version of FreeBSD (5.1) >> and the ports collection was fresh. I should check that before >> reporting an error (according >> to the snipped text). > > If you followed the URL in the error you'd learn that it's not in fact > a supported release by the ports collection. > > Kris No I don't since I followed the url and checked it before posting it. It worked two weeks ago when I last did exactly the same thing on this system. From what I can tell it hasn't changed. Could you please point me to the information I missed? Cheers
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