Ports Update: Failed to Generate INDEX

Ron Tarrant rtarrant at sympatico.ca
Tue Sep 5 07:26:20 PDT 2006


Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 11:01:39 -0300, Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez
> <rnsanchez at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 09:25:38 -0400, Ron Tarrant <rtarrant at sympatico.ca>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> 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.
>>>       
>> IIRC, you must have all the ports (ports-all in your config file) in order
>> to generate an INDEX, as it will fail otherwise.
>>     
>
> After sending, I saw your comment about having already done that
> (ports-all).  Don't know what's wrong, then -- sorry for the noise.
>
>   
No problem, Ricardo. Thanks for the reply anyway.

-Ron T.


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