portsdb -Uu -> Stop.

[Alexey Karguine]

Ewald Jenisch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> today I cvsup-ed one of my 5.3 systems by using the same procedure as
> many times before:
> 
> cvsup -g -L 2 ./ports-supfile
> pkgdb -F
> portsdb -Uu
> 
> The first two steps (cvsup, pkgdb) went OK without error, but during
> portsdb -Uu I get an error as follows:
> 
> 
> # portsdb -Uu
> Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..apsfilter-7.2.6
> : "/usr/ports/print/acroread5" non-existent -- dependency list incomplete
> ===> print/apsfilter failed
> *** Error code 1
> 1 error
> 
> ********************************************************************
> 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 not supported with partial or out-of-date ports collections -- in
> particular, if you are using cvsup, you must cvsup the "ports-all"
> collection, and have no "refuse" files.)  If that is the case, then
> report the failure to ports at FreeBSD.org together with relevant
> details of your ports configuration (including FreeBSD version,
> your architecture, your environment, and your /etc/make.conf
> settings, especially compiler flags and WITH/WITHOUT settings).
> 
> Note: the latest pre-generated version of INDEX may be fetched
> automatically with "make fetchindex".
> ********************************************************************
> 
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports.
> failed to generate INDEX!
> portsdb: index generation error
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> What can I do against this error?
> 
> 
> Thanks much in advance for any clue,
> -ewald

You may do:

cd /usr/ports
make fetchindex

to fetch index-file. You not must generate this file yourself and 
wasting your time and CPU-resourses.

-- 
Alexey Karguine