INDEX fails at /usr/ports/palm

[Kent Stewart]

On Wednesday 07 May 2003 01:33 pm, Robert English wrote:
> 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.

I did selective rm -rf *'s because I didn't want distfiles and 
packages/All to be removed. I haven't had a failure like this for 
months. Doing it every 2 weeks would be a lot of unnecessary processing 
to my way of thinking. I follow the premis of "don't fix something that 
isn't broken".

Kent

>
> --- 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
> >
> > http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html

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