Error running portsdb -Uu after cvsup ports-all

[Kent Stewart]

In your defense, the breakage appears to be so bad that Kris' script is 
not dinging the people responsible for breaking the make index.

Kent

On Wednesday 21 July 2004 12:04 am, Kent Stewart wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 July 2004 11:51 pm, Mauricio Brunstein wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm running FreeBSD 4.9,
> >
> > fileserver:~ $ uname -a
> > FreeBSD fileserver.lan 4.9-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #0: Mon Oct
> > 27 17:51:09 GMT 2003
> > root at freebsd-stable.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> >
> >
> > and after removing the complete ports tree,
> >
> > fileserver:/usr/ports $ sudo rm -rf *
> > fileserver:/usr/ports $
> >
> > and doing a cvsup of the ports tree using the standard supplied
> > supfile (I only modified the server name) to retrieve the complete
> > ports tree again, get the following output:
> >
> > fileserver:/usr/ports $ sudo portsdb -Uu
> >
> > Updating the ports index ... grip-3.2.0_4:"" non-existent --
> > dependency list incomplete
> > grip-3.2.0_4:"/usr/ports/devel/lgspeakers-0.11" non-existent --
> > dependency list incomplete
>
> You are following the wrong list. Kris' script has been saying it was
> broken on ports@ for about 1.5 days. Since almost everyone knows it
> is broken, there isn't any point of complaining about it unless you
> have a fix :).
>
> Use sysutils/portindex. It is still producing a portdb -u with 11406
> port entries.
>
> Kent

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