portupgrade problem - multiple failures..

[Steve Monkhouse]

Ok.. Im running FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE and all has been working perfectly up
until yesterday when I decided to do a portupgrade.. 

The machine must have locked up at some stage and dropped my
connection.. I could not reattach to it, so had to reboot.. 

Now a simple pkg_version -v gives :

root at server:/usr/ports# pkg_version -v |more
pkg_info: can't find package 'gd-2.0.25,1' installed or in a file!
pkg_info: can't find package 'jpgraph-1.16' installed or in a file!
pkg_info: can't find package 'mrtg-2.10.14,1' installed or in a file!
pkg_info: can't find package 'p5-Chart-PNGgraph-1.21_2' installed or in
a file!
pkg_info: can't find package 'p5-GD-2.15' installed or in a file!
pkg_info: can't find package 'p5-GD-Graph-1.43' installed or in a file!
pkg_info: can't find package 'p5-GD-TextUtil-0.86' installed or in a
file!
pkg_info: can't find package 'php4-gd-4.3.8_2' installed or in a file!
pkg_info: can't find package 'png-1.2.5_7' installed or in a file!
cat: /usr/ports/INDEX: No such file or directory
XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_7           <   needs updating (port has
4.4.0_1)
apache+mod_ssl-1.3.31+2.8.19        =   up-to-date with port
arts++-1.1.a8_2,1                   =   up-to-date with port
autoconf-2.53_1                     <   needs updating (port has 2.53_3)
--snip--

and of course all the packages have now ceased to work at all.. 

so.. I did a cvsup for ports and src. No problems, then.. 

root at server:/usr/ports# make index
Generating INDEX - please wait..test: <: unexpected operator
"Makefile", line 44: warning: String comparison operator should be
either == or !=
"Makefile", line 44: Malformed conditional (${OSVERSION} < 490000 ||
(${OSVERSION} >= 500000 && ${OSVERSION} < 502001))
"Makefile", line 44: Missing dependency operator
"Makefile", line 46: if-less endif
"Makefile", line 46: Need an operator
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
===> x11/nvidia-driver failed
*** Error code 1
1 error

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Before reporting this error, verify that you are running a supported
version of FreeBSD (see http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/) and that you
have a complete and up-to-date ports collection.  (INDEX builds are
not supported with partial or out-of-date ports collections -- in
particular, if you are using cvsup, you must cvsup the "ports-all"
collection, and have no "refuse" files.)  If that is the case, then
report the failure to ports at FreeBSD.org together with relevant
details of your ports configuration (including FreeBSD version,
your architecture, your environment, and your /etc/make.conf
settings, especially compiler flags and WITH/WITHOUT settings).

Note: the latest pre-generated version of INDEX may be fetched
automatically with "make fetchindex".
********************************************************************
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports.


Anyone got any ideas to point me in the right direction ??

Thank you.. 
Steve