Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 20:04:37 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: broken ports index Message-ID: <20040511030437.GA77037@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <loom.20040511T025853-777@post.gmane.org> References: <loom.20040511T025853-777@post.gmane.org>
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Adding maintainer and last committer to CC list since there's a good
chance one of them is responsible :-)
Kris
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 01:06:23AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> Someone asked me today, "how is it possible that I get 'package supercede=
s port'
> when I run pkg_version or portversion? The only thing I've been doing is
> updating my ports with cvsup"
>=20
> I thought this was a very good question, especially as it then made me no=
tice
> that I was getting the same on one of my machines. So I had a bit of a g=
oogle
> and found a post that suggested I should do:
>=20
> cd /usr/ports
> make index
>=20
> I tried this, and got this result:
>=20
> $ sudo make index =
=20
> Generating INDEX-5 - please wait..=3D=3D=3D> comms/gnokii failed:
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.gnome.mk", line 8: Malformed conditional
> (${_USE_GNOME_ALL:Mglib12}=3D=3D"")
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.gnome.mk", line 8: Need an operator
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.gnome.mk", line 8: Malformed conditional
> (${_USE_GNOME_ALL:Mgtk12}=3D=3D"")
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.gnome.mk", line 8: Need an operator
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 1520: if-less endif
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 1520: Need an operator
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 4830: if-less endif
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 4830: Need an operator
> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> *** Error code 1
> 1 error
>=20
> ********************************************************************
> 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).
> ********************************************************************
>=20
> *** Error code 1
>=20
> Stop in /usr/ports.
> *** Error code 1
>=20
> Stop in /usr/ports.
>=20
> So I did a cvsup in the hope that it would have been a momentary problem =
that
> got fixed, but this does not appear to be the case. Now my pkg_version a=
nd
> portversion scripts do not work (they give similar errors to above).
>=20
> Was this a bad thing to do?
>=20
> How do I recover from it? I do have backups, but I would like to know wh=
ich
> files to restore. Or I could just nuke /usr/ports and cvsup them again.
>=20
> [andy@laudanum ports]$ uname -a
> FreeBSD laudanum.strugglers.net 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1=
#0:
> Wed Mar 3 02:18:05 GMT 2004 =20
> root@laudanum.strugglers.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LAUDANUM i386
>=20
> [andy@laudanum ports]$ cat /etc/make.conf=20
> CPUTYPE=3Dp2
> # -- use.perl generated deltas -- #
> # Created: Wed Feb 4 03:36:35 2004
> # Setting to use base perl from ports:
> PERL_VER=3D5.8.2
> PERL_VERSION=3D5.8.2
> PERL_ARCH=3Dmach
> NOPERL=3Dyo
> NO_PERL=3Dyo
> NO_PERL_WRAPPER=3Dyo
>=20
> Thanks,
> Andy
>=20
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>=20
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