Duplicate INDEX entry

[Matthew Seaman]

On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 08:33:29AM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote:
> On Sunday 25 July 2004 07:24 am, Anders Mansson wrote:
> > Hi! When trying to update my ports with 'portsdb -Uu', I get the
> > following error message:
> >
> > Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please
> > wait..Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: freeciv-gtk2-1.14.1
> > Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: fvwm-imlib-2.4.18
> >  Done.
> > done
> > [Updating the portsdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /usr/ports ... - 11406
> > port entries found
> > .........1000.........2000.........3000.........4000.........5000....
> >.....6000.........7000.........8000.........9000.........10000........
> >.11000.... ..... done]
> >
> > Can someone please explaine what this means and how to remedy it?
> >
> 
> You have something installed that looks identical to those ports. I get 
> the same messages and ignor them.

Agreed, those messages are harmless and can be ignored.  However,
what's happening is that those ports are actually part of a
master-slave pairing, where the difference is enabling some feature
like gtk support.  Either you have a Makefile setting somewhere
(/etc/make.conf possibly) which unconditionally turns on that support,
or the port tries to be too clever for it's own good, and turns on
support for the feature automatically if it detects that the required
libraries are installed.  That effectively makes the master port
identical to the slave port, hence the error message.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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