On Thursday 23 December 2004 08:37 pm, whitevamp wrote:> i dont know weathere this place to be posting this to or not .. if
> not point me in the right direction to go..
>
> i have just updated my system to 5.3 frrom 4.9 and now every time i
> goto run portsdb , or portupgrade iget the same error message.and i
> also have a nother 5.3 box that was a fresh install of 5.3 thats
> getting the same error
>
> I have checked this and iam doing a cvsup src all , and i have no
> refuse files in any one of the conf files IE: make.conf ,
> pkgtools.conf (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 not supported with partial or out-of-date ports collections -- in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.)
> and i have wiped out my intire ports tree IE: /usr/ports/* , and
> recvsuped it with the same error showing up
>
>
> so what would be giveing me this exact same error on both boxes??
> portsdb -Ufu
> Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please
> wait..fr-mozilla-flp-1.7.3_1: "/usr/ports/www/mozilla-gtk2"
> non-existent -- dependency list incomplete ===> french/mozilla-flp
> 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 not supported with partial or out-of-date ports collections -- in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@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
>
> vampextream# uname -a
> FreeBSD vampextream.com 5.3-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p2 #3: Wed
> Dec 8 20:33:13 PST 2004
> root@vampextream.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/VAMPEXTREAM i386
>
>
> if theres any othere information that you need just let me know .
>
> and thankx for any help on this issue , inadvance.
People usually report this sort of thing in
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org or ports@freebsd.org.
These days it is best to run make fetch index from /usr/ports
after you've run cvsup rather than build INDEX-5 for yourself.
-Mike