portsdb -Uu error

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Jul 6 01:17:32 PDT 2004


On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 08:55:32AM +0000, Ariane & Ron Joordens wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have just cvsupped successfully and tried to run portsdb -Uu. I received the 
> following error:
> _____________________________________________________________
> freebsd# portsdb -Uu
> Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please 
> wait..fr-mozilla-flp-1.7: "/usr/ports/www/mozilla-gtk2" non-existent -- 
> dependency list incomplete
> ===> french/mozilla-flp failed
> *** Error code 1
> 1 error

Looks like you have mozilla-gtk2 installed, but this port was recently
removed.  www/mozex/Makefile.xpi does some slightly over-clever
gymnastics that detect this, which causes the breakage.

> 
> ********************************************************************
> Before reporting this error, verify that you are running a supported
> version of FreeBSD (see http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/) and that you
> have a complete and up-to-date ports collection (INDEX builds are
> not supported with partial or out-of-date ports collections).  If
> so, then report the failure to ports at FreeBSD.org together with
> relevant details of your ports configuration (including FreeBSD
> version, environment and /etc/make.conf settings).
> ********************************************************************

Note that you didn't quite follow these instructions.

Kris

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