Portsdb returns error after cvsup - How to Proceed?

Mark Kane mark at mkproductions.org
Tue Sep 27 13:09:50 PDT 2005


Kent Stewart wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 September 2005 12:33 pm, Mark Kane wrote:
> 
>>Hi everyone. I CVSupped yesterday to make sure I got the Firefox fix.
>>My plan was to do the following:
>>
>># cvsup -g -L 2 ports-supfile
>># portsdb -Uu
>># portversion -l "<"
>># portupgrade -arR
>>
>>After cvsupping and running portsdb -Uu, I got an error which is at
>>the end of my email.
>>
>>Today I tried a "make index" from /usr/ports/, and that seemed to run
>>OK. A "portupgrade -arRn" simulated the upgrade process and nothing
>>seemed to fail, but I want to be safe and not mess anything up as I
>>am relatively new to portupgrade and don't want a big mess.
>>
>>I did the same process that I listed above a couple weeks ago and
>>everything went fine, so I was surprised to see the error this time.
>>
>>I'm not sure how to proceed, so thanks in advance for any
>>suggestions.
> 
> 
> portsdb -U was converted to using make index a long time ago. There is 
> something else going on. Do you have any refuses? In addition, it may 
> have been fixed by now. Make index was failing on 4.x but that was 
> fixed on Sunday.
> 
> Kent

Thanks for the reply. Nope, no refuses. CVSup was run yesterday 
afternoon around this time.

FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE (amd64)

-Mark


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