Ports Installed Are Newer Than Tree? -- SOLVED

[Drew Tomlinson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew at mykitchentable.net>
To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 11:35 AM
Subject: Ports Installed Are Newer Than Tree?


> It seems that the ports I have installed on my system are newer than
the
> ones in the ports tree.  If I run portversion, I get output that looks
> like this:
>
> farmer# portversion -v -L=
> XFree86-Server-4.3.0_6      >  succeeds port (port has 4.3.0_5)
> cdrtools-2.0_1              >  succeeds port (port has 2.0)
> gconf-1.0.9_3               >  succeeds port (port has 1.0.9_2)
> gdm2-2.4.1.4                >  succeeds port (port has 2.4.1.3_1)
> gnomegames2-2.2.1_1         >  succeeds port (port has 2.2.1)
>
> And the list goes on.  I've updated my ports tree using cvsup and it
> finishes successfully.  I've also run portsdb -uU to update the
indexes
> however the problem persists.
>
> I'm stumped and don't know what else to check.  Any ideas?  I'm
running
> 4.8.

Thanks for the responses.  I found that my INDEX was bad.  I tried
deleting the file and then running make index but that kept failing.
Finally I deleted my entire ports tree and the directory cvsup used to
keep track of updates.  Then I ran cvsup.  Finally I ran portsdb -uU to
make the new index files.  Everything looks good now.

I'm sure my approach was drastic and would appreciate knowing how I
could have fixed this instead of blowing everything away and starting
over.

Thanks,

Drew