portsdb: Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry

[Uwe Doering]

Bernard El-Hagin wrote:
> Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 07:44:45AM +0100, Bernard El-Hagin wrote:
>>
>>>>>Since I have this same problem I ran 'make describe' and here's the
>>>>>result:
>>>>>
>>>>>-------------
>>>>>===> devel/sparc-rtems-gdb
>>>>>*** Error code 1
>>>>>
>>>>>Stop in /usr/ports/devel.
>>>>>*** Error code 1
>>>>>
>>>>>Stop in /usr/ports.
>>>>>-------------
>>>>
>>>>What version of FreeBSD are you running?
>>>
>>>Sorry, I should have mentioned that. I'm running 5.1-Release.
>>
>>I think there's something in one of the included makefiles that relies
>>on a change to make(1) that happened after 5.1-RELEASE.  Note that
>>only the most recent release is supported by the ports collection
>>(http://www.freebsd.org/ports); try updating to 5.2 or 4.9, which
>>should fix the problem.
> 
> Wow, that really sucks, since I've had zero luck updating to 5.2 the two
> times I tried, and going with 4.9 from 5.1R means a reinstall, rather
> than an upgrade (I'm led to believe).

If you have the OS sources installed you could selectively upgrade the 
source files of make(1) via cvsup(1) and just install it.  No need to 
upgrade the whole OS only because make(1) got an additional command line 
option.  We recently did this for our 4.5 based systems.

    Uwe
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