portsdb -uU fails

Kent Stewart kstewart at owt.com
Fri Feb 4 02:49:20 PST 2005


On Friday 04 February 2005 02:04 am, Vonleigh Simmons wrote:
> 	While running portsdb -uU I get the following error:
>
> Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please
> wait..icecast2-2.2.0,1: "/usr/ports/multimedia/libtheora"
> non-existent -- dependency list incomplete
> ===> audio/icecast2 failed
> *** Error code 1
> 1 error
>
> 	This is on FreeBSD 5.3 stable after a recent cvsup. Any help fixing
> this matter is appreciated.
>

When this happens, the easy answer is to user "make fetchindex" and then 
only do a "portsdb -u". I am not seeing any messages about INDEX dying 
in ports@ and that usually means you are refusing something that 
another port needs. The only choice then is to use fetchindex.

Kent

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