INDEX fails at /usr/ports/palm - addenda

[Robert English]

Solved problem #1 and got problem #2, but this one is easier to
pinpoint.

Problem #1 (Kris knows this one already): as it turned out, I
had put "/ports/palm" in the "refuse"  file for cvsup - the
stale files apparently weren't a problem until today.  Removing
the "palm" ports, and leaving the "refuse" file intact, allowed
the index to get past that point.

Problem #2: the new INDEX compile barfed at "/print/gp".  This
port, according to the mailing list at "cvs-all", was
effectively gutted as of 3 AM this morning.  The folder was
still there in my ports tree, but there was nothing in it.  So,
when "make describe" hit that port, it responded with "don't
know how to make" and stopped.  Taking the "gp" port folder to
the trash allowed "make describe" to get all the way through the
"print" directory without barfing.

Gonna give it another try, and I'm hopeful that it will be
successful this time.  Thanks for bearing with me on this.

--- Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 05:29:37PM -0700, Robert English
> wrote:
> > Hello -
> > 
> > just a few minutes ago, after doing the regular daily cvsup,
> the
> > index compile broke - it left this message at the top of the
> > resulting index file:
> > 
> > *** Error code 1|||||||
> > Stop in /usr/ports/palm.|||||||
> > Stop in /usr/ports.|||||||
> > Stop.|||||||
> > There is no COMMENT variable defined|||||||
> > for this port. Please, rectify this.
> 
> Clean INDEX builds appear to be completing successfully, so
> the most
> likely explanation is that you have something stale in palm/
> that is
> causing the error.  Try 'make describe' in /usr/ports/palm to
> track
> down what is failing.
> 
> Kris
> 

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