ports dependency/INDEX errors on 4.10
Björn König
abfalltonne at alpha-tierchen.de
Fri Jul 16 01:47:43 PDT 2004
Haim Ashkenazi schrieb:
> Stale dependency: php4-4.3.6 --> apache-1.3.29_3 -- manually run 'pkgdb -F' to f
> ix, or specify -O to force.
>
> it seems that php4 requires apache 1.3.29 and I have 1.3.31. this problem
> is not new, because I had it 2 weeks ago.
That's normal and not a problem. Run 'pkgdb -F' as suggested. It will
bend the dependency from apache-1.3.29 to your apache-1.3.31. It won't hurt.
> 2. the second problem is that I can't "make index". when I run it, it
> doesn't report any error, but when trying to run "portsman" I get an error
> that "INDEX file seems to be corrupted or is of an unknown format". the
> only way to fix it is to run cvsup, but then the versions I see in
> portsman are old.
Try also "portsdb -uU". I'd never serious problems with it. I update my
local ports tree and INDEX file daily.
Björn
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