broken ports index

[Michael C. Shultz]

On Monday 10 May 2004 06:06 pm, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Someone asked me today, "how is it possible that I get 'package supercedes
> port' when I run pkg_version or portversion?  The only thing I've been
> doing is updating my ports with cvsup"
>
> I thought this was a very good question, especially as it then made me
> notice that I was getting the same on one of my machines.  So I had a bit
> of a google and found a post that suggested I should do:
>
> cd /usr/ports
> make index
>
> I tried this, and got this result:
>
> $ sudo make index
> Generating INDEX-5 - please wait..===> comms/gnokii failed:
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.gnome.mk", line 8: Malformed conditional
> (${_USE_GNOME_ALL:Mglib12}=="")
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.gnome.mk", line 8: Need an operator
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.gnome.mk", line 8: Malformed conditional
> (${_USE_GNOME_ALL:Mgtk12}=="")
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.gnome.mk", line 8: Need an operator
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 1520: if-less endif
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 1520: Need an operator
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 4830: if-less endif
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 4830: Need an operator
> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> *** Error code 1
> 1 error
>
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>
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports.
>
> So I did a cvsup in the hope that it would have been a momentary problem
> that got fixed, but this does not appear to be the case.  Now my
> pkg_version and portversion scripts do not work (they give similar errors
> to above).
>
> Was this a bad thing to do?
>
> How do I recover from it?  I do have backups, but I would like to know
> which files to restore.  Or I could just nuke /usr/ports and cvsup them
> again.
>
> [andy at laudanum ports]$ uname -a
> FreeBSD laudanum.strugglers.net 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1
> #0: Wed Mar  3 02:18:05 GMT 2004
> root at laudanum.strugglers.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LAUDANUM  i386
>
> [andy at laudanum ports]$ cat /etc/make.conf
> CPUTYPE=p2
> # -- use.perl generated deltas -- #
> # Created: Wed Feb  4 03:36:35 2004
> # Setting to use base perl from ports:
> PERL_VER=5.8.2
> PERL_VERSION=5.8.2
> PERL_ARCH=mach
> NOPERL=yo
> NO_PERL=yo
> NO_PERL_WRAPPER=yo
>
> Thanks,
> Andy
>
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I have a program that would be perfect for your situation. Its located at
http://portmanager.sourceforge.net

To get the equivalent of portversion -v you run portmanager -s.

Portmanager does not require the INDEX or INDEX-5 files to give you
the status of installed ports, instead it compares the installed ports
with the ones listed in each port's Makefile.

-Mike

PS. Its submitted in pr 65917