ports tree out've sync

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Aug 14 14:47:38 PDT 2007


On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 07:08:52PM +0200, gareth wrote:
> hey guys, i can't see a similar question recently so i wonder if
> i've done something wrong? i've noticed for about 2 weeks that
> things seem to be out've sync:
> 
> if i do a cvsup with either host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org or cvsup2.FreeBSD.org
> and then a portsdb (even after removing /usr/ports/INDEX-6*)
> 
> 'portversion -l ">"' returns 32 packages?
> 
> ('portversion -l "<"' returns nothing)

Are you cvsupping with a fixed tag?

> 
> 
> similarly for portaudit:
> 
> # portaudit -F
> auditfile.tbz                                 100% of   43 kB 1016 kBps
> portaudit: Database too old.
> Old database restored.
> portaudit: Download failed.

That's bizarre because portaudit doesn't download from cvsup, so there
is no reason I can think why it would be old when freshly updated.

Kris


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