The fear of cvsupping my ports...

Kent Stewart kstewart at owt.com
Tue Jan 27 20:43:00 PST 2004


On Tuesday 27 January 2004 04:35 pm, fbsd_user wrote:
> Sounds like you are missing the /usr/ports INDEX file or it's messed
> up big time. Try cvsup-ing the posts-base category. The INDEX file
> is part of that category. The ports-base category only contains the
> things that make the ports application function and will not effect
> any of your port config files you have previous downloaded to your
> hard drive. With out an current ports-base you have no bases from
> which to debug other ports problems.  If you do not know how to do
> this, contact me back and I will give you instructions.

You don't understand. Portsdb -U and make index are alternate processes 
that can be used to create INDEX. If you don't have a fully populated 
ports tree make bails. So, if you are going to do a "make index" you 
have to cvsup ports-all, 

I would guess that he refused too many sections.

Kent

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Henrik W
> Lund
> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 4:24 PM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: The fear of cvsupping my ports...
>
> Greetings!
>
> I was just wondering if anyone knew how to work around this little
> problem I have. I'm running 4.9-RELEASE, by the way.
>
> Now, the thing is, I run into problems when I've cvsupped my ports
> tree.
> "make index" bails out afer about 2 seconds, and "portsdb -U" spews
> out
> about 3000 lines of "<portname> missing:" " dependency list
> incomplete".
> This, of course, leaves my package database mangled, with
> portversion
> reporting all of my installed ports as being of a later date than
> the
> ones in the ports tree. I've tried cvsupping at various points in
> time
> over the past few weeks, but to no avail. A bit of snooping around
> led
> me to suspect that maybe it has something to do with the make
> program,
> but I'm not sure.
>
> Has anyone got any idea? Must I upgrade to -STABLE? I'd rather not,
> because in my experience those kinds of major upgrades leave the
> system
> anything BUT stable. On the other hand, I'm getting tired of
> reinstalling the ports tree from sysinstall to avoid complete and
> utter
> chaos.
>
> Please (b)cc: me, as I'm not a subscriber. Thanks!!
>
> Henrik W Lund
> Computer Engineering student
> Østfold College
>
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Kent Stewart
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