portupgrade issue

[Scott Lambert]

On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 05:34:36PM -0700, Joe Kelsey wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 18:40, Peter Avalos wrote:
> > On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 09:04:28PM -0400, Jerry A! wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 05:51:33PM -0700, Joe Kelsey wrote:
> > > : follow the suggestion and actually *use* the suggested refuse
> > > : file you will then be unable to follow the other suggestion and
> > > : ever use portupgrade, or else fix portupgrade so that it does
> > > : not dump it guts out if a language dependency is missing.
> > > :
> > > : Very frustrating and totally unnecessary.  Especially since I
> > > : now have to waste disk space on language ports.
> > >
> > > Can't you specify the languages in the "IGNORE_CATEGORIES" portion
> > > of pkgtools.conf?  Then you should be able to safely skip it.
> > >
> >
> > Yes, and there's even an example right there in pkgtools.conf.
>
> That is all well and good, but the HANDBOOK makes no mention of
> the fact that I have to go poring though pkgtools.conf looking for
> mysterious settings to put in place.

I have had a refuse file that excludes the language ports for years in
4-STABLE and 5-STABLE, without bothering to set IGNORE_CATEGORIES.  I
keep adding new languages as they show up.  Portupgrade doesn't care.
cd /usr/ports/; make index; will show some errors, but that is purely
cosmetic.

Look elsewhere for your problem.  I would suggest you start by deleteing 
portupgrade and ruby ports and reinstalling them.

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Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
lambert at lambertfam.org