INDEX fails at /usr/ports/palm

[Robert English]

Thanks for the confirm - it looks like an occasional wiping of
the ports and a complete refetch of the ports tree would be a
"Good Thing To Do" (TM).  Not sure how often to do that; most of
the time this is not an issue at all, so I can do a normal daily
cvsup and this won't be a problem.  

Maybe once every few weeks run a cvsup script that doesn't have
the "default tag" line, effectively deleting the local copy of
the ports tree, and let it download a fresh copy of the whole
tree.

--- Kent Stewart <kstewart at owt.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 May 2003 05:44 pm, Kris Kennaway 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.
> >
> 
> Deleting /usr/ports and recvsuping works. If I have anything
> stale in my 
> /usr/ports tree, it is because it was updated between some
> changes that 
> deleted ports and left the ../work/ with old comments in them.
> 
> FWIW, I went through them last night and there were 145 ports
> that had 
> either a Makefile and no ../work or a ../work and no Makefile.
> A 
> current cvsup of ports-all from my local cvs-mirror works. It
> was the 
> system that was cvsuped almost everyday that had massive
> problems. I 
> think the cvs changes that deleted these ports was
> modified/eliminated 
> too soon.
> 
> Kent
> 
> -- 
> Kent Stewart
> Richland, WA
> 
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