ports dependency/INDEX errors on 4.10

[Haim Ashkenazi]

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:06:33 -0400, Barney Wolff wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:26:57PM +0300, Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
>> 
>> 2. the second problem is that I can't "make index". when I run it, it
>> doesn't report any error, but when trying to run "portsman" I get an error
>> that "INDEX file seems to be corrupted or is of an unknown format". the
>> only way to fix it is to run cvsup, but then the versions I see in
>> portsman are old.
> 
> I've seen this problem when cvsup runs after "make index" - patch conflict
> stuff is left in the file for you to resolve, and it's not in the right
> format for INDEX.  If you're going to make your own INDEX, you should
> put INDEX in the cvsup refuse file to avoid this.  Also, make index will
> do odd stuff if you have any ports in the cvsup refuse file, because
> there will be dependencies that can't be resolved - and the error messages,
> which I think are also left in the generated INDEX, again are not in
> the expected INDEX format.
thanx for the info. I'll do it.

Bye
-- 
Haim