portsdb: index generation error

[David C. Snyder]

Hello,

For the past couple of weeks, I've been seeing errors like this when I
try to update my ports index after doing a cvsup of the ports
collection:

   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
   # portsdb -Uu
   Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..drweb_postfix-4
   .29.12f: "/usr/ports/security/drwebd" non-existent -- dependency list incomplete
   ===> security/drweb-postfix 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   not supported with partial or out-of-date ports collections).  If
   so, then report the failure to ports at FreeBSD.org together with
   relevant details of your ports configuration (including FreeBSD
   version, environment and /etc/make.conf settings).
   ********************************************************************

   *** Error code 1

   Stop in /usr/ports.
   *** Error code 1

   Stop in /usr/ports.
   failed to generate INDEX!
   portsdb: index generation error
   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

I've tried switching cvsup servers and even completely removing
/usr/ports and pulling down a complete fresh copy via cvsup before
updating the index, but that didn't seem to help.

I'm running 4.9-RELEASE-p5 on an Intel P4.  Here are the contents of
my /etc/make.conf:

   ----------------------------------------
   # -- use.perl generated deltas -- #
   # Created: Tue Jun 22 12:29:00 2004
   # Setting to use base perl from ports:
   PERL_VER=5.8.4
   PERL_VERSION=5.8.4
   PERL_ARCH=mach
   NOPERL=yo
   NO_PERL=yo
   NO_PERL_WRAPPER=yo
   ----------------------------------------

Here are my environment variables:

   ----------------------------------------
   # env
   _=/usr/bin/env
   PAGER=less -eds
   PS1=phalanx#
   PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
   SHELL=/bin/ksh
   BLOCKSIZE=K
   USER=root
   MAIL=/var/mail/root
   HOME=/root
   TERM=xterm
   FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES
   ENV=/root/.shrc
   ----------------------------------------

Please let me know if there's any other information that you need.
I'm actually seeing this problem on more than one system.  One of the
other hosts is running 5.2.1-RELEASE-p5.

-- David