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Date:      Thu, 23 Dec 2004 21:15:41 -0800
From:      "whitevamp" <whitevamp47@hotmail.com>
To:        "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm@inbox.lv>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: portsdb and portupgrade causes errors
Message-ID:  <BAY103-DAV16259A9921A78F171D6E78A1A60@phx.gbl>
References:  <BAY103-DAV168EF45207FA3AA7CF758AA1A60@phx.gbl> <200412232050.14601.ringworm@inbox.lv>

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm@inbox.lv>
To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: portsdb and portupgrade causes errors


> On Thursday 23 December 2004 08:37 pm, whitevamp wrote:
> > i dont know weathere this place to be posting this to  or not .. if
> > not point me in the right direction to go..
> >
> > i have just updated my system to 5.3 frrom 4.9 and now every time i
> > goto run portsdb , or portupgrade iget the same error message.and i
> > also have a nother 5.3 box that was a fresh install of 5.3 thats
> > getting the same error
> >
> > I have checked this and iam doing a cvsup src all , and i have no
> > refuse files in any one of the conf files IE: make.conf ,
> > pkgtools.conf (INDEX builds are
> > not supported with partial or out-of-date ports collections -- in
> > particular, if you are using cvsup, you must cvsup the "ports-all"
> > collection, and have no "refuse" files.)
> > and i have wiped out my intire ports tree IE: /usr/ports/*  , and
> > recvsuped it with the same error showing up
> >
> >
> > so what would be giveing me this exact same error on both boxes??
> > portsdb -Ufu
> > Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please
> > wait..fr-mozilla-flp-1.7.3_1: "/usr/ports/www/mozilla-gtk2"
> > non-existent -- dependency list incomplete ===> french/mozilla-flp
> > 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 not supported with partial or out-of-date ports collections -- in
> > particular, if you are using cvsup, you must cvsup the "ports-all"
> > collection, and have no "refuse" files.)  If that is the case, then
> > report the failure to ports@FreeBSD.org together with relevant
> > details of your ports configuration (including FreeBSD version,
> > your architecture, your environment, and your /etc/make.conf
> > settings, especially compiler flags and WITH/WITHOUT settings).
> >
> > Note: the latest pre-generated version of INDEX may be fetched
> > automatically with "make fetchindex".
> > ********************************************************************
> >
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /usr/ports.
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /usr/ports.
> > failed to generate INDEX!
> > portsdb: index generation error
> >
> > vampextream# uname -a
> > FreeBSD vampextream.com 5.3-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p2 #3: Wed
> > Dec  8 20:33:13 PST 2004
> > root@vampextream.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/VAMPEXTREAM  i386
> >
> >
> > if theres any othere information that you need just let me know .
> >
> > and thankx for any help on this issue , inadvance.
>
> People usually report this sort of thing in
> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org or ports@freebsd.org.
>
> These days it is best to run make fetch index from /usr/ports
> after you've run cvsup rather than build INDEX-5 for yourself.
>
> -Mike
>
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ok thanks for the info  ill post over to ports@freebsd.org.
and thats one thing i forgoto mention in my original post was that i had
allready ran make fetchindex



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