Ports Collection - INDEX Error (FreeBSD 5.4)

Benjamin Keating motionsiren at gmail.com
Thu May 12 15:35:31 PDT 2005


Thanks! I completely forgot about `make fetchindex`. Would this
command replace `portsdb -Uu`?

On 12 May 2005 18:01:19 -0400, Lowell Gilbert
<freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
> Benjamin Keating <motionsiren at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I did a very generic install of FreeBSD 5.4 on stable hardware.
> > Updated ports and then did this:
> >
> > toki# cd /usr/ports/
> > toki# make index
> > Generating INDEX-5 - please wait.."/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line
> > 4847: warning: duplicate script for target "add-p
> > list-post" ignored
> > fityk-0.4.4_1: "/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/wxgtk2" non-existent --
> > dependency list incomplete
> > ===> math/fityk failed
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > 1 error
> >
> > ********************************************************************
> > Before reporting this error, verify that you are running a supported
> > version of FreeBSD (see http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/) and that you
> > have a complete and up-to-date ports collection.  (INDEX builds are
> > not supported with partial or out-of-date ports collections -- in
> > particular, if you are using cvsup, you must cvsup the "ports-all"
> > collection, and have no "refuse" files.)  If that is the case, then
> > report the failure to ports at FreeBSD.org together with relevant
> > details of your ports configuration (including FreeBSD version,
> > your architecture, your environment, and your /etc/make.conf
> > settings, especially compiler flags and WITH/WITHOUT settings).
> >
> > Note: the latest pre-generated version of INDEX may be fetched
> > automatically with "make fetchindex".
> > ********************************************************************
> >
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /usr/ports.
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /usr/ports.
> >
> > This has happend to me before. How can I prevent this from happening?
> > I'd like to automate cvsup / index building.
> 
> This was a temporary problem; if you update your ports again the index
> will build properly.  If you want to be sure it will never happen to
> you again, then using "make fetchindex", as the error message
> suggested, is your best bet.
>


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