"portsdb -Uu" failed

[Joseph Kim]

To whom it may concern:

I'm reporting the error messages from 'portsdb -Uu'.
This problem started lastnight and there were no such problems before.

Here is the info. on my FreeBSD environment:
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- uname -a:
FreeBSD nrl.stanford.edu 4.9-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p7 #1: Tue May 11 18:43:53 PDT 2004
root at nrl.stanford.edu:/usr/src/sys/compile/my_kernel  i386

- No "/etc/make.conf" file.
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Here are the said error messages:
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% sudo portsdb -Uu
Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..===> www/opera-devel failed:
make: don't know how to make describe. Stop
*** Error code 1
1 error

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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.  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).
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*** Error code 1

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

Stop in /usr/ports.
failed to generate INDEX!
portsdb: index generation error
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Many thanks in advance for your working on the reported problems!

Regards,
Joseph
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