'Portsdb -Uu' Fails

[Kent Stewart]

On Friday 02 January 2004 01:39 am, Rishi Chopra wrote:
> I'm attempting my first 'portsdb -Uu' after a successful CVSUp, but
> am running into some problems:
>
> idfubar# portsdb -Uu
> Updating the ports index ... perl: not found
> /usr/local/sbin/make_describe_pass2:70:in `write': Broken pipe
> (Errno::EPIPE)
>         from /usr/local/sbin/make_describe_pass2:70:in `puts'
>         from /usr/local/sbin/make_describe_pass2:70
> failed to generate INDEX!
> portsdb: index generation error
>
> Where have I failed?
>

You may not have. Sometimes people update the ports and leave things 
out. If you have done a recent cvsup of ports-all, try the following.

cd /usr/ports
make index
portsdb -u

There are times when portsdb has problems and there are times when 
"make index" falls on its face. I had a good "make index" at 0000 
UTC.

Kent

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