On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 02:43:45 +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote > On Sat, 7 Aug 2004 14:43:27 -0800 > "Noah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi there, > > > > I have a cron job that auto-cvs-updates the /usr/ports directories. > > > > I want to update the portsdb and pkgdb as soon as cvsup has completed its > > work. I am using the following two commands to do this. am I doing the right > > thing? > > Yes, but you could optimize it by using sysutils/portindex instead of > portsdb -U and run portsdb -u after it finishes. Except on the first > run you will see a *big* speed improvement.
okay the second run comes up with the follow: # /usr/local/bin/portindex Checking ports tree for changes. Abort with CTRL-C. Updating portinfo for /usr/ports/archivers/pear-Archive_Tar Master port is /usr/ports/devel/pear-PEAR pear-Archive_Tar-1.2: "/usr/ports/lang/php4-horde" non-existent -- dependency list incomplete Failed to extract describe information from /usr/ports/archivers/pear-Archive_Tar Updating portinfo for /usr/ports/archivers/pecl-zip pecl-zip-1.0: "/usr/ports/lang/php4-horde" non-existent -- dependency list incomplete Failed to extract describe information from /usr/ports/archivers/pecl-zip Updating portinfo for /usr/ports/archivers/php4-bz2 Master port is /usr/ports/lang/php4 php4-bz2-4.3.8_2: "/usr/ports/lang/php4-horde" non-existent -- dependency list incomplete Failed to extract describe information from /usr/ports/archivers/php4-bz2 Updating portinfo for /usr/ports/archivers/php4-zlib Master port is /usr/ports/lang/php4 php4-zlib-4.3.8_2: "/usr/ports/lang/php4-horde" non-existent -- dependency list incomplete Failed to extract describe information from /usr/ports/archivers/php4-zlib Updating portinfo for /usr/ports/archivers/php5-bz2 Master port is /usr/ports/lang/php5 ^CSaving status data ...^C also on another machine I am seeing this happening after running portindex then portsdb -u - I get hundreds of lines like this: /usr/ports/INDEX:1742:Port info line must consist of 10 fields. /usr/ports/INDEX:1743:Port info line must consist of 10 fields. /usr/ports/INDEX:1744:Port info line must consist of 10 fields. /usr/ports/INDEX:1745:Port info line must consist of 10 fields. /usr/ports/INDEX:1746:Port info line must consist of 10 fields. any clues why? cheers, Noah > > > > > ---- snip --- > > > > /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -uU > > /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb -Fa > > > > --- snip --- > > -- > IOnut > Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"