portsdb -U fails

[Andrea Venturoli]

On 05/04/12 15:18, Bryan Drewery wrote:

> Portupgrade is currently supported by me at http://pkgtools.github.com

Well... Many thanks for that!!!




> You can also run 'make index' in /usr/ports and see if it fails.

# cd /usr/ports/
# make index
Generating INDEX-7 - please wait..Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: 
p5-libapreq2-2.13_2
  Done.
golia# cd /usr/ports/
golia# make search name=p5-libapreq2
Port:   p5-libapreq2-2.13_2
Path:   /usr/ports/www/p5-libapreq2
Info:   Generic Apache2 Request Library
Maint:  apache at FreeBSD.org
B-deps: ap22-mod_perl2-2.0.5_1,3 apache-2.2.22_5 
apr-devrandom-gdbm-db42-1.4.5.1.3.12_1 autoconf-2.68 
autoconf-wrapper-20101119 db42-4.2.52_5 expat-2.0.1_2 gdbm-1.9.1 
gettext-0.18.1.1 gmake-3.82 libiconv-1.14 libtool-2.4.2 m4-1.4.16,1 
openssl-1.0.1_1 p5-BSD-Resource-1.2904 p5-ExtUtils-XSBuilder-0.28_1 
p5-Parse-RecDescent-1.965.001 p5-Tie-IxHash-1.22 pcre-8.30_2 perl-5.12.4_4
R-deps: ap22-mod_perl2-2.0.5_1,3 apache-2.2.22_5 
apr-devrandom-gdbm-db42-1.4.5.1.3.12_1 db42-4.2.52_5 expat-2.0.1_2 
gdbm-1.9.1 libiconv-1.14 openssl-1.0.1_1 p5-BSD-Resource-1.2904 
p5-ExtUtils-XSBuilder-0.28_1 p5-Parse-RecDescent-1.965.001 
p5-Tie-IxHash-1.22 pcre-8.30_2 perl-5.12.4_4
WWW:    http://httpd.apache.org/apreq/

So, I only get a warning...
Can't tell what that's about, since I only get one port...

Deleting that port doesn't solve, anyway, so this does not seem to be 
the cause.



 >> Is there any way I can debug this?
 >
 > Yes, open up /usr/local/sbin/portsdb, go to line  205 and remove these
 > lines:
 >
 >      rescue =>  e
 >        STDERR.puts "#{MYNAME}: #{e}"
 >        exit 1

Not much help:

# portsdb -Uu
Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please 
wait..Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: p5-libapreq2-2.13_2
  Done.
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:430:in `system': can't 
convert nil into String (TypeError)
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:430:in `update'
         from /usr/local/sbin/portsdb:159:in `main'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:791:in `initialize'
         from /usr/local/sbin/portsdb:68:in `new'
         from /usr/local/sbin/portsdb:68:in `main'
         from /usr/local/sbin/portsdb:214





> Unless you've modified your ports or added extra dependencies, you can
> just fetch the index with: portsdb -FU.

I'm going this way for now.




> I've logged this failure upstream at
> https://github.com/pkgtools/pkgtools/issues/27
>
> If you figure anything further out, before I fix it, please let me know.

I'd gladly help.
The way to go, IMHO,is to get additional logging; unfortunately I know 
nothing about Ruby.





  bye & Thanks
	av.