portsdb -Uu error

Anthony Edwards anthony.edwards at uk.easynet.net
Tue Jun 29 09:11:56 PDT 2004


This looks to be a fairly straightforward error:

  ---- begin error message ----
fishcat# portsdb -Uu
Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please
wait..drweb_postfix-4.29.12f: "/usr/ports/security/drwebd" non-existent
-- dependency list incomplete
===> security/drweb-postfix failed
*** Error code 1
1 error

********************************************************************
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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not supported with partial or out-of-date ports collections).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).
********************************************************************

Stop in /usr/ports.
failed to generate INDEX!
portsdb: index generation error
  ---- end error message ----

bash-2.05b$ pwd
/usr/ports/security
bash-2.05b$ ls | more
[...]
dropbear
drweb
drweb-postfix
drweb-qmail
drweb-sendmail
dsniff
[...]

As the portsdb -Uu error message states, /usr/ports/security/drwebd is
non-existent (at least following a cvsup of the ports tree today, I am
not sure if it was there before) and so the portsdb -Uu run fails with
the error message shown above.

My FreeBSD version is RELENG_4 (FreeBSD-STABLE).

What is the fix for this please?  Waiting until a new cvsup corrects the
error above, or...?

-- 
Anthony Edwards
anthony.edwards at uk.easynet.net


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