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Date:      Fri, 14 May 2004 00:21:38 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Kevin Greenidge <kaging@access4less.net>
Subject:   Re: Portsdb Update  Error
Message-ID:  <200405140021.38159.kstewart@owt.com>
In-Reply-To: <000101c4397d$f3fbfed0$0a01a8c0@something>
References:  <000101c4397d$f3fbfed0$0a01a8c0@something>

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On Thursday 13 May 2004 11:37 pm, Kevin Greenidge wrote:
> The thing is I always have the whole "Chinese" ports collection in my
> refuse file when I do a cvsup among with a bunch of other stuff so I
> don't know why this error decides to show itself now. Any help would
> be appreciated.

That doesn't mean one of the Makefiles in one of the other port 
directories isn't pointing there as a dependancy. If you want "make 
index" to almost always work, don't refuse. You really don't save that 
much space.

Kent

>
> I am using the following:
>
> FreeBSD santacruz 4.9-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p7 #0: Sat May 
> 8 01:42:38 GMT 2004
>
>
>
> santacruz# portsdb -Uu
> Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..===>
> chinese/op
> enoffice-zh_CN failed:
> "Makefile", line 17: Could not find
> /usr/ports/chinese/openoffice-zh_CN/../../ed
> itors/openoffice/Makefile
> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> *** 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.  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).
> ********************************************************************
>
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports.
> failed to generate INDEX!
> portsdb: index generation error
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-- 
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

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