portsdb -Uu and new mirror

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 10:50:01PM +0930, Brian Astill wrote:
> My ISP now stores "all" the FBSD ports and sources
> 
> #portsdb -Uu
> Updating the ports index ...make: don't know how to make 
> //ftp.filearena.net/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles//(continuing): 
> malformed entry: make: don't know how to make 
> //ftp.filearena.net/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles//(continuing)
> make: don't know how to make 
> //ftp.filearena.net/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles//(continuing): 
> malformed entry: make: don't know how to make 
> //ftp.filearena.net/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles//(continuing)
> 
> and so on ad infinitum (well nearly :-) )  until:
> 
> failed to generate INDEX!
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/portsdb.rb:210:in `update': index 
> generation error (PortsDB::IndexFileError)
>         from /usr/local/sbin/portsdb:154:in `main'
>         from /usr/local/sbin/portsdb:66:in `initialize'
>         from /usr/local/sbin/portsdb:66:in `new'
>         from /usr/local/sbin/portsdb:66:in `main'
>         from /usr/local/sbin/portsdb:205
> 
> OK, so I have rebuilt the ports index files by commenting out the 
> offending references to filearena in /etc/make.conf BUT I need to 
> uncomment them again to take advantage of my ISP's collection of 
> distfiles.

Sounds like you have something incorrect in make.conf, but you forgot
to include it so we can't be sure :-)

Kris
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