Problems with portsdb -Uu on FreeBSD 6.3

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On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Sean Cavanaugh <millenia2000 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> From: "perikillo" <perikillo at gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 5:41 PM
> To: "FreeBSD Mailing List" <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Subject: Problems with portsdb -Uu on FreeBSD 6.3
>
>>  Hi people.
>>
>>  Well I have time locking for a solution for this problem I have, I have
>> googling around and have not found a solution, I have 2 serves running
>> FreeBSD 6.1/6.2, normally I update my ports tree each day, but I already
>> stop doing that because I still cannot fix the problems with the commmand:
>>
>> portsdb -Uu, each time I run that command on both servers I receive this
>> error:
>>
>> Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please
>> wait.."Makefile",
>> line 56: Could not find bsd.port.options.mk
>> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
>> ===> sysutils/apcupsd failed
>> *** Error code 1
>
>
> CVSUP your tree to straighten it out. I noticed that portsnap will not fix
> damaged/missing files.

Portsnap will if you do "extract". It WONT if you do "update."