ports problems

[Stephen Hilton]

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 13:36:52 -0600
Stephen Hilton <nospam at hiltonbsd.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 11:28:22 -0500
> "Jonathan T. Sage" <sagejona at msu.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> > 
> > >RYAN vAN GINNEKEN <rmvg at shaw.ca> writes:
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > >>when i run portsdb -Uu i get many errors like the one below is there
> > >>anyone who can help me
> > >>
> > >>fileroller-2.4.2_1,1:"/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/pango" non-existent --  dependency list incomplete
> > >>    
> > >>
> > >
> > >That just means you didn't have /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/pango in your
> > >ports tree.  Assuming this is intentional (you didn't update the whole
> > >ports tree for some reason?) then there's no problem.  If you wanted
> > >to update the whole tree, then you need to figure out what you did
> > >wrong with your update operation (e.g., maybe you need to get rid of a
> > >refuse file for the ports collection). 
> > >
> > Also note, that there errors are not completely unheard of.  I run a 
> > ports cvsup nightly, update the index database, and send the output of 
> > portversion to myself.  looking back in my logs, it looks as if i almost 
> > always have at least a few of these types of errors
> 
> Try using 'make index" then 'portsdb -u' instead, this seems to almost 
> always give me better results. Set your /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf 
> variables appropriately.

This may help also:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=2841035+2848911+
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Regards,

Stephen Hilton
nospam at hiltonbsd.com