Problem with index

[Jason E. Hale]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 9:12 AM, Gerard Seibert <carmel_ny at outlook.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 13:41:41 +0100, Tijl Coosemans stated:
>
>>On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 12:29:47 +0000 Matthew Seaman
>><matthew at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>> On 2017/02/20 11:36, Gerard Seibert wrote:
>>>> I just updated my ports tree using "portsnap". I then ran the
>>>> following command:
>>>>
>>>> /usr/sbin/pkg version -vL=
>>>>
>>>> This resulted in the following message:
>>>>
>>>> postfix-current-3.2.20170129,4     >   succeeds index (index has
>>>> 3.2.0.r1,4)
>>>>
>>>> This does not seem correct. What is happening and how do I correct
>>>> it?
>>>
>>> Your index file is out of date -- portsnap doesn't updated it
>>> because it changes too fast to be suitable for keeping in SVN.
>>>
>>> You need to
>>>
>>>   # make fetchindex
>>>
>>> from /usr/ports to download a pre-built index.  Or build your own, by
>>> 'make index'.  Or tell 'pkg version' to compare versions directly
>>> with what's in your ports tree by 'pkg version -vP=' (but this will
>>> be quite a bit slower).
>>
>>Portsnap should update the INDEX file.  Check /etc/portsnap.conf.
>>There should be a line like this: INDEX INDEX-<N> DESCRIBE-<N> where
>><N> is the major version of the FreeBSD release you have installed
>>(10, 11 or 12).
>
>
> Okay, I followed Matthew's advice and ran 'make index', but that did
> not change anything. The line described by Tiji is present and correct
> in the '/etc/portsnap.conf' file.
>
> Also, 'pkg version -vP=' bombs out with an "illegal option -- =". Sans
> the "=", it reports, "postfix-current-3.2.20170129,4     >   succeeds
> index (index has 3.2.0.r1,4), which is what was being reported
> previously.
>
> I even ran 'portsdb -Fu' which updated the index also. However, that
> did not correct the problem.
>
> I am open to suggestions.
>

I just went ahead and fixed the mail/postfix-current port.  If you run
portsnap again in 20-30 minutes, it should fix the problem you're
seeing.