Error message while running 'portsdb -Uu'

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Oct 25 11:59:32 PDT 2005


On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 02:35:54PM -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 25, 2005 2:03:43 PM, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
> Subject: Re: Error message while running 'portsdb -Uu'
> Wrote these words of wisdom:
> 
> > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 08:27:21PM -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> > > I just updated my ports using cvsup and then proceeded to run 'portsdb
> > > -Uu' to generate the index file. Upon completion, it produced this error
> > > message:
> > > 
> > > Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..jot:
> > > infinite sequences cannot be bounded "Makefile", line 19: warning:
> > > "/usr/bin/jot -s " " -w 6.4.%03d   0 1 0" returned non-zero status jot:
> > > infinite sequences cannot be bounded
> > > "/usr/ports/editors/vim-lite/../vim/Makefile", line 19: warning:
> > > "/usr/bin/jot -s " " -w 6.4.%03d   0 1 0" returned non-zero status jot:
> > > infinite sequences cannot be bounded
> > > "/usr/ports/editors/vim6+ruby/../vim/Makefile", line 19: warning:
> > > "/usr/bin/jot -s " " -w 6.4.%03d   0 1 0" returned non-zero status
> > > 
> > > Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: freeciv-gtk2-2.0.6
> > > Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: mod_frontpage2-5.0.2.2635
> > > Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: mod_jk2-apache2-2.0.4
> > > Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: mod_rpaf-ap2-0.5
> > >  Done.
> > > 
> > > I have never seen that one before. What does it mean, and what should I
> > > do to correct it, it anything?
> > 
> > cvsup again, and in general, read discussion on ports@ before sending
> > duplicate reports :)
> > 
> > Kris
> 
> 
> ***** REPLY SEPARATOR *****
> On 10/11/2005 5:29:42 PM, Gerard Replied:
> 
> Excuse me, but what 'duplicate reports' are you referring to?

Others reporting the same problem, which was introduced a day or so
ago and then fixed.

Kris
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