INDEX build failed for 6.x

Jeremy Messenger mezz7 at cox.net
Thu Aug 7 17:03:36 UTC 2008


On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:57:07 -0500, Erwin Lansing <erwin at freebsd.org>  
wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 11:53:57AM -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>> On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:47:28 -0500, Erwin Lansing <erwin at freebsd.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 11:45:43AM -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>> >> On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:36:42 -0500, Kris Kennaway <kris at freebsd.org>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>> >> >> On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:08:19 -0500, Erwin Lansing  
>> <erwin at freebsd.org>
>> >> >> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >>> INDEX build failed with errors:
>> >> >>> Generating INDEX-6 - please wait..pkg_info: not found
>> >> >>> pkg_info: not found
>> >> >>> pkg_info: not found
>> >> >>> pkg_info: not found
>> >> >>>  Done.
>> >> >>> make_index: transmission-gtk2-1.31: no entry for
>> >> >>> /usr/ports/www/transmission-web
>> >> >>  Why did your script took hours to find that www/transmission-web?
>> >> Need
>> >> >> to improvement your script?
>> >> >
>> >> > This is not constructively worded.  The script currently only runs
>> >> every
>> >> > 3 hours because the system is overloaded, but you should not be
>> >> relying
>> >> > upon it to catch the silly mistakes in your commits to begin with  
>> ;)
>> >>
>> >> What mistake? Unless, I am blind? :-)
>> >>
>> >  
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/www/Makefile.diff?r1=1.2115;r2=1.2116;f=h
>>
>> Do'h! Thanks for fix it. The error wasn't clear, so I ignored it last
>> night.
>>
> No worries, easy typo to make.  The "no entry for" error from 'make
> index' means it cannot find the port used as a dependency from another
> port.  Usually, it is because of a typo in the *_DEPENDS line, or in

I checked in *_DEPENDS like two or three times, so figured to ignore it  
and hope that it will be fine in next INDEX run. :-)

> this case, because the port wasn't hooked up to the build.

Noted, thanks.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Cheers,
> -erwin


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