Error message while running 'portsdb -Uu'

[John DeStefano]

On Tuesday, October 25, 2005 2:59:24 PM, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
Wrote these words of wisdom:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 02:35:54PM -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> > On Tuesday, October 25, 2005 2:03:43 PM, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
> > Subject: Re: Error message while running 'portsdb -Uu'
> > Wrote these words of wisdom:
> >
> > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 08:27:21PM -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> > > > I just updated my ports using cvsup and then proceeded to run 'portsdb
> > > > -Uu' to generate the index file. Upon completion, it produced this error
> > > > message:
> > > >
> > > > Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..jot:
> > > > infinite sequences cannot be bounded "Makefile", line 19: warning:
> > > > "/usr/bin/jot -s " " -w 6.4.%03d   0 1 0" returned non-zero status jot:
> > > > infinite sequences cannot be bounded
> > > > "/usr/ports/editors/vim-lite/../vim/Makefile", line 19: warning:
> > > > "/usr/bin/jot -s " " -w 6.4.%03d   0 1 0" returned non-zero status jot:
> > > > infinite sequences cannot be bounded
> > > > "/usr/ports/editors/vim6+ruby/../vim/Makefile", line 19: warning:
> > > > "/usr/bin/jot -s " " -w 6.4.%03d   0 1 0" returned non-zero status
> > > >
> > > > Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: freeciv-gtk2-2.0.6
> > > > Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: mod_frontpage2-5.0.2.2635
> > > > Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: mod_jk2-apache2-2.0.4
> > > > Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: mod_rpaf-ap2-0.5
> > > >  Done.
> > > >
> > > > I have never seen that one before. What does it mean, and what should I
> > > > do to correct it, it anything?
> > >
> > > cvsup again, and in general, read discussion on ports@ before sending
> > > duplicate reports :)
> > >
> > > Kris

I updated today with portsnap, and I'm seeing a different problem-- at
least, it appears to me to be of a much different nature:
# portsdb -uU
Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..
"Makefile", line 30: warning: String comparison operator should be
either == or !=
"Makefile", line 30: Malformed conditional (defined(PHP_VERS) &&
${PHP_VERS} < 436)
"Makefile", line 30: Need an operator
"Makefile", line 32: if-less endif
"Makefile", line 32: Need an operator
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
===> net/pear-Net_DNSBL failed
*** Error code 1
1 error


I haven't seen anything on -questions or -ports recently reporting
these errors.  Is this related?