broken ports index

[Kris Kennaway]

Adding maintainer and last committer to CC list since there's a good
chance one of them is responsible :-)

Kris

On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 01:06:23AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Someone asked me today, "how is it possible that I get 'package supercedes port'
> when I run pkg_version or portversion?  The only thing I've been doing is
> updating my ports with cvsup"
> 
> I thought this was a very good question, especially as it then made me notice
> that I was getting the same on one of my machines.  So I had a bit of a google
> and found a post that suggested I should do:
> 
> cd /usr/ports
> make index
> 
> I tried this, and got this result:
> 
> $ sudo make index                                                             
> Generating INDEX-5 - please wait..===> comms/gnokii failed:
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.gnome.mk", line 8: Malformed conditional
> (${_USE_GNOME_ALL:Mglib12}=="")
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.gnome.mk", line 8: Need an operator
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.gnome.mk", line 8: Malformed conditional
> (${_USE_GNOME_ALL:Mgtk12}=="")
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.gnome.mk", line 8: Need an operator
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 1520: if-less endif
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 1520: Need an operator
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 4830: if-less endif
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 4830: Need an operator
> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> *** Error code 1
> 1 error
> 
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> ********************************************************************
> 
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports.
> 
> So I did a cvsup in the hope that it would have been a momentary problem that
> got fixed, but this does not appear to be the case.  Now my pkg_version and
> portversion scripts do not work (they give similar errors to above).
> 
> Was this a bad thing to do?
> 
> How do I recover from it?  I do have backups, but I would like to know which
> files to restore.  Or I could just nuke /usr/ports and cvsup them again.
> 
> [andy at laudanum ports]$ uname -a
> FreeBSD laudanum.strugglers.net 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1 #0:
> Wed Mar  3 02:18:05 GMT 2004    
> root at laudanum.strugglers.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LAUDANUM  i386
> 
> [andy at laudanum ports]$ cat /etc/make.conf 
> CPUTYPE=p2
> # -- use.perl generated deltas -- #
> # Created: Wed Feb  4 03:36:35 2004
> # Setting to use base perl from ports:
> PERL_VER=5.8.2
> PERL_VERSION=5.8.2
> PERL_ARCH=mach
> NOPERL=yo
> NO_PERL=yo
> NO_PERL_WRAPPER=yo
> 
> Thanks,
> Andy
> 
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