portupgrade misbehavior

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Thu May 20 00:43:01 PDT 2004


On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 12:20:31AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 03:14:02AM -0400, Adam McLaurin wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 May 2004 03:07:10 -0400
> > Adam McLaurin <adam.mclaurin at gmx.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > -# ls -al /usr/ports/INDEX*
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   5089899 May  1 08:57 /usr/ports/INDEX
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   4947853 Mar 15 18:20 /usr/ports/INDEX-5
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  10911744 Apr  6 01:21 /usr/ports/INDEX.db
> > > 
> > > Looking at http://www.freshports.org/shells/zsh , the zsh port hasn't
> > > been modified since March 23rd, so I should be OK on that front.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > And portversion does also report that zsh is up-to-date:
> > > 
> > > -# portversion -v |grep -i zsh
> > > zsh-4.2.0                   =  up-to-date with port
> > 
> > Hmm now I've got myself confused; is it INDEX or INDEX-5 I should be
> > looking at here? 
> 
> INDEX-5 is for 5.x.
> 
> > In any case, even portversion reports zsh as up-to-date, so something
> > does appear to be wrong.
> 
> Maybe portupgrade doesn't use the INDEX files any more.  Try updating
        ^^^^^^^^^^^
portversion, sorry for the confusion.

> your INDEX-5 either with portsdb -uU or by downloading from
> www.freebsd.org/ports/INDEX-5 and retry.

Kris
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