portsdb: Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry
Uwe Doering
gemini at geminix.org
Thu Feb 26 03:41:57 PST 2004
Bernard El-Hagin wrote:
> Uwe Doering wrote:
>>Bernard El-Hagin wrote:
>>>Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
>>>>[...]
>>>>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.
>
> Could you please explain how that's done? I've never selectively
> upgraded the source and I'm afraid of screwing something up.
If you haven't already done so, install the port 'cvsup', preferably the
precompiled package in order to avoid having to install Modula (which
'cvsup' is written in).
Then you need an appropriate supfile, '/etc/cvsup-src-5.2' in this
example, which should look like this:
--------------------- cut here ------------------------
*default host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org
*default base=/usr
*default prefix=/usr
*default release=cvs
*default tag=RELENG_5_2
*default delete use-rel-suffix
src-all
--------------------- cut here ------------------------
Now do
cvsup -g -i src/usr.bin/make /etc/cvsup-src-5.2
Once this went through successfully, build and install the new version:
cd /usr/src/usr.bin/make
make obj && make depend && make
make install
(clean up /usr/obj afterwards if desired)
That's it. You can selectively upgrade other programs the same way if
necessary, provided of course there are no incompatibilities in the
respective areas between the OS releases. A look at the CVS commit
comments is always a good idea in this context.
Uwe
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