portupgrade misbehavior

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 03:14:02AM -0400, Adam McLaurin wrote:
> On Thu, 20 May 2004 03:07:10 -0400
> Adam McLaurin <adam.mclaurin at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> > -# ls -al /usr/ports/INDEX*
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   5089899 May  1 08:57 /usr/ports/INDEX
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   4947853 Mar 15 18:20 /usr/ports/INDEX-5
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  10911744 Apr  6 01:21 /usr/ports/INDEX.db
> > 
> > Looking at http://www.freshports.org/shells/zsh , the zsh port hasn't
> > been modified since March 23rd, so I should be OK on that front.
> > 
> > 
> > And portversion does also report that zsh is up-to-date:
> > 
> > -# portversion -v |grep -i zsh
> > zsh-4.2.0                   =  up-to-date with port
> 
> Hmm now I've got myself confused; is it INDEX or INDEX-5 I should be
> looking at here? 

INDEX-5 is for 5.x.

> In any case, even portversion reports zsh as up-to-date, so something
> does appear to be wrong.

Maybe portupgrade doesn't use the INDEX files any more.  Try updating
your INDEX-5 either with portsdb -uU or by downloading from
www.freebsd.org/ports/INDEX-5 and retry.

Kris
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