portsdb -Uu and new mirror

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Thu Apr 1 20:44:43 PST 2004


On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 01:28:46PM +0930, Brian Astill wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 07:36 am, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 10:50:01PM +0930, Brian Astill wrote:
> > > My ISP now stores "all" the FBSD ports and sources
> > >
> > > #portsdb -Uu
> > > Updating the ports index ...make: don't know how to make
> > > //ftp.filearena.net/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles//(continuing):
> <snip>
> > > and so on ad infinitum (well nearly :-) )  until:
> > >
> > > failed to generate INDEX!
> > > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/portsdb.rb:210:in `update': index
> > > generation error (PortsDB::IndexFileError)
> > >         from /usr/local/sbin/portsdb:154:in `main'
> > >         from /usr/local/sbin/portsdb:66:in `initialize'
> > >         from /usr/local/sbin/portsdb:66:in `new'
> > >         from /usr/local/sbin/portsdb:66:in `main'
> > >         from /usr/local/sbin/portsdb:205
> > >
> > > OK, so I have rebuilt the ports index files by commenting out the
> > > offending references to filearena in /etc/make.conf BUT I need to
> > > uncomment them again to take advantage of my ISP's collection of
> > > distfiles.
> >
> > Sounds like you have something incorrect in make.conf, but you forgot
> > to include it so we can't be sure :-)
> 
> Fussy-fussy!  :-)
> 
> The lines I have added look like this:

> MASTER_SITE_BACKUP?=\
> #	ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR}/
> #
> # If you want your port fetches to check the above site first (before
> # the MASTER_SITES specified in the port Makefiles), uncomment the
> # line below.  You can also change the right side to point to wherever
> # you want 
> ftp://ftp.filearena.net/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR}/

There are two errors there.  Probably what you intended was for
MASTER_SITE_BACKUP to be set to ftp://ftp.filearena.net/..., but
comments are not ignored when doing line continuations, so the
variable is set to the literal next line, and the ftp:// becomes a
syntax error.

Kris
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