Ports Update: Failed to Generate INDEX

[Ron Tarrant]

Hi all,

While trying to update ports for FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE using this command:

/usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu

I got the following error (please see below for the process leading up 
to this):

Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please 
wait.."Makefile", lin
e 33: Could not find 
/usr/ports/japanese/gnomelibs/../../x11/gnomelibs/Makefile
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 1886: Malformed conditional 
(${X_WINDOW_SYSTEM
:L} == xfree86-3)
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 1951: Malformed conditional 
(${PERL_LEVEL} >=
500600)
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 1960: if-less endif
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2200: Malformed conditional (${PREFIX} 
== ${X1
1BASE_REL} || defined(USE_X_PREFIX))
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2203: Malformed conditional 
(${X_WINDOW_SYSTEM
:L} == xfree86-3)
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2208: if-less elif
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2210: if-less else
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2212: if-less endif
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2213: if-less endif
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2864: Malformed conditional (${PREFIX} 
== /usr
)
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2866: if-less else
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2868: if-less endif
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2956: Malformed conditional (${PREFIX} 
== /usr
)
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2958: if-less else
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2960: if-less endif
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5503: Malformed conditional 
((${PREFIX} != ${L
OCALBASE_REL} && ${PREFIX} != ${X11BASE_REL} && ${PREFIX} != 
${LINUXBASE_REL} &&
 ${PREFIX} != "/usr"))
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5508: if-less endif
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5992: if-less endif
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
===> japanese/gnomelibs 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not supported with partial or out-of-date ports collections -- in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.
failed to generate INDEX!
portsdb: index generation error


Process:

cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup
make install clean
(reboot)
cp /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile /root/

I then edited /root/ports-supfile and added the host:

*default host=cvsup12.FreeBSD.org

At first, I commented out all the ports for languages I don't understand 
such as Russian, Japanese, etc. But I got a similar error, so I 
commented out all the individual ports and uncommented ports-all to do a 
complete job of it. That's when I ran portsdb -Uu and got the above error.

This is my first time doing this, so I'm sure I've missed something 
somewhere.

-Ron T.



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