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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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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
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