Ports Update: Failed to Generate INDEX

Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez rnsanchez at gmail.com
Tue Sep 5 07:04:37 PDT 2006


On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 11:01:39 -0300, Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez
<rnsanchez at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 09:25:38 -0400, Ron Tarrant <rtarrant at sympatico.ca>
> wrote:
> 
> > At first, I commented out all the ports for languages I don't
> > understand such as Russian, Japanese, etc. But I got a similar error,
> > so I commented out all the individual ports and uncommented ports-all
> > to do a complete job of it. That's when I ran portsdb -Uu and got the
> > above error.
> > 
> > This is my first time doing this, so I'm sure I've missed something 
> > somewhere.
> 
> IIRC, you must have all the ports (ports-all in your config file) in order
> to generate an INDEX, as it will fail otherwise.

After sending, I saw your comment about having already done that
(ports-all).  Don't know what's wrong, then -- sorry for the noise.

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