Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 18:25:47 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Rishi Chopra <rchopra@cal.berkeley.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating Ports Index Message-ID: <1073345147.765.196.camel@gyros> In-Reply-To: <3FF9F1D0.1050200@cal.berkeley.edu> References: <3FF9F1D0.1050200@cal.berkeley.edu>
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--=-SN35aySye9K36oak1bKF Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 18:22, Rishi Chopra wrote: > For some reason, I can't seem to update the index for the ports database: >=20 > idfubar# cd /usr/ports > idfubar# make index > Generating INDEX-5 - please wait..perl: not found > perl: not found > Done. >=20 > I also tried attempting my first 'portsdb -Uu' after a successful CVSUp,=20 > but am running into some problems: >=20 > idfubar# portsdb -Uu > Updating the ports index ... perl: not found > /usr/local/sbin/make_describe_pass2:70:in `write': Broken pipe=20 > (Errno::EPIPE) > from /usr/local/sbin/make_describe_pass2:70:in `puts' > from /usr/local/sbin/make_describe_pass2:70 > failed to generate INDEX! > portsdb: index generation error >=20 >=20 > Can anyone explain why I might be getting these errors? My installation=20 > was a minimal install, do I need to install something else for the 'make=20 > index' command to work properly? Yes, you need Perl. You can install it from /usr/ports/lang/perl5. Joe >=20 > -R > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-SN35aySye9K36oak1bKF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/+fJ7b2iPiv4Uz4cRAgEvAKCv/nP1MuvngM7VcKyRafs2Z0gPKACfXE6S NXyXCStSEdP1IuoPO7LL2sU= =ddmY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-SN35aySye9K36oak1bKF--
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