From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 4 18:36:56 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B313316A4CE for ; Wed, 4 May 2005 18:36:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mxsf26.cluster1.charter.net (mxsf26.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5390443D64 for ; Wed, 4 May 2005 18:36:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jim-c@charter.net) Received: from mxip20.cluster1.charter.net (mxip20a.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.150])j44G65LH025187 for ; Wed, 4 May 2005 12:06:05 -0400 Received: from res-68-119-202-215.spa.sc.charter.com (HELO [127.0.0.1]) (68.119.202.215) by mxip20.cluster1.charter.net with ESMTP; 04 May 2005 12:06:06 -0400 X-Ironport-AV: i="3.92,154,1112587200"; d="scan'208"; a="989090829:sNHT14144252" Message-ID: <4278F2E9.9010601@charter.net> Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 12:06:01 -0400 From: Jim Campbell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Problem with portsdb X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 18:36:56 -0000 Let me preface this by saying that I am a newbie at FreeBSD specifically and the *NIX world in general. I have checked the archives and found problems similar to mine, but cannot find what to do to fix the problem. I have installed FreeBSD 4.11-Stable on my machine. I run "cvsup" to update my ports collection. I then run "portsdb -uU" to update the INDEX.db file. This gives me two warning messages about duplicate index entries for "freeciv-gtk-1.14.2" and "fvwm-imlib-2.4.19". I can run "make index" with the same results. However, I can run "make describe" with no error messages. If I run "whereis freeciv-gtk" it is found whereas "whereis fvwm-imlib" is not found. I believe that I read that the /usr/ports/INDEX file is downloaded with "cvsup" (?). If so and I run "portsdb -u" then the INDEX.db file is built from the INDEX file that was downloaded. If I do this, I get no warning message. I am guessing that "portsdb -uU" rebuilds the INDEX file from the contents of the port tree. If so, then something is amiss in my port tree. Is this correct? Is this a serious problem that needs fixing? If so, how do I go about fixing it? In baby steps, please :=) Thanks, Jim Campbell