Problem with portsdb

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Wed, 4 May 2005 15:03:40 -0400
Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com> wrote:

> Jim Campbell <jim-c at charter.net> wrote:
> 
> > Let me preface this by saying that I am a newbie at FreeBSD specifically 
> > and the *NIX world in general.
> > 
> > I have checked the archives and found problems similar to mine, but 
> > cannot find what to do to fix the problem.
> > 
> > I have installed FreeBSD 4.11-Stable on my machine.  I run "cvsup" to 
> > update my ports collection.  I then run "portsdb -uU" to update the 
> > INDEX.db file.  This gives me two warning messages about duplicate index 
> > entries for "freeciv-gtk-1.14.2" and "fvwm-imlib-2.4.19".  I can run 
> > "make index" with the same results.  However, I can run "make describe" 
> > with no error messages.  If I run "whereis freeciv-gtk" it is found 
> > whereas "whereis fvwm-imlib" is not found.

This has been explained before, see i.e kris@ posts on this subj. on this list.
 
> Because the ports tree changes continuously, it's about a 50/50 shot
> (in my opinion, actual numbers may differ) that you'll get a version
> that can build a full index.  Everything has to be 100% perfect for
> an index to build, as far as I can tell.

Yes, but the chances are actually more 99.9%.

> You'd do much better to "cd /usr/port && make fetchindex" to download
> the latest successful index build from the Internet.

Not exactly: the index generated by the build cluster is for default ports 
options while your installed ports can have different dependencies; this
affects portversion and friends.

Take a look at sysutils/p5-FreeBSd-portindex.

> > I believe that I read that the /usr/ports/INDEX file is downloaded with 
> > "cvsup" (?).  If so and I run "portsdb -u" then the INDEX.db file is 
> > built from the INDEX file that was downloaded.  If I do this, I get no 
> > warning message.  I am guessing that "portsdb -uU" rebuilds the INDEX 
> > file from the contents of the port tree.  If so, then something is amiss 
> > in my port tree. Is this correct?

No see kris@ explanations.
 
> > Is this a serious problem that needs fixing?  If so, how do I go about 
> > fixing it?  In baby steps, please :=)
> 
> Yes, it' needs fixing, but it's generally something the ports folks have
> to take care of, and they have an automated system that warns them when
> index isn't building, so they already know.

But for him the index is building (as for anyone else right now); that's
only a harmless  warning. 


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