portsdb -U fails

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sun Feb 1 13:23:50 PST 2004


On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 10:03:30PM +0100, r t g tan wrote:

> > portsdb -U is broken - I sent mail to the author the other day, but
> > didn't receive a reply yet.  In the meantime, you can edit
> > /usr/local/sbin/make_describe_pass1 and change the 'make -j3' to
> > 'make'.
> > 
> > Kris
> 
> Hi Kris,
> 
> The following line from /usr/local/sbin/make_describe_pass1:
> 	
> 	open("|cd #{dir} && make -k -j3 -f -", 'w') do |w|
> 
> I changed to:
> 
> 	open("|cd #{dir} && make -", 'w') do |w|
> 	
> now portsdb -U is running for quite some time.
> 
> I have no idea what it is doing though.

No, that's not quite what I said..just remove the -j3 and leave the other arguments untouched.

Kris
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