Re: Ports Update: Failed to Generate INDEX

2006-09-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 11:49:35AM -0400, Ron Tarrant wrote: > Hi again, Kris, > > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > >No, that's fine. You need to a) confirm you are really getting the > >error you posted, b) if so, check why the file it mentions cannot be > >read. > > > > > > > So, I should re-run cv

Re: Ports Update: Failed to Generate INDEX

2006-09-06 Thread Ron Tarrant
Hi again, Kris, Kris Kennaway wrote: No, that's fine. You need to a) confirm you are really getting the error you posted, b) if so, check why the file it mentions cannot be read. So, I should re-run cvsup and portsdb using the same arguments as before: cvsup -g -L 2 /root/ports-supfile

Re: Ports Update: Failed to Generate INDEX

2006-09-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 12:44:42AM -0400, Ron Tarrant wrote: > Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez wrote: > > > >IIRC, you must have all the ports (ports-all in your config file) in order > >to generate an INDEX, as it will fail otherwise. > > > > > Yeah, when I realized that I interrupted the cvsup command

Re: Ports Update: Failed to Generate INDEX

2006-09-05 Thread Ron Tarrant
Hi Daniel, Welcome to the discussion. Daniel Eischen wrote: I've seen errors similar to yours when your Mk files are out of date with the rest of your ports tree. As root: # cd /usr/ports/Mk # cvs -R update -P -d I'm assuming that the rest of your ports tree has also been updated accord

Re: Ports Update: Failed to Generate INDEX

2006-09-05 Thread Ron Tarrant
Kris Kennaway wrote: This makes me think that you didn't re-run cvsup since your "similar error" is precisely what you'd expect if you didn't have anything in japanese/. It's there in my command history twice with an ee ports-supfile between the two occurances of cvsup. BTW, this is the ex

Re: Ports Update: Failed to Generate INDEX

2006-09-05 Thread Ron Tarrant
Wolfgang Zenker wrote: just to make sure: You did run cvsup after uncommenting ports-all and before running portsdb -Uu, right? Yes. I double-checked the command history and I definitely did. -Ron T. -- Ron Tarrant Blog:http://www.writingup.com/blog/phpgtk2";>PHP-Gtk2 ___

Re: Ports Update: Failed to Generate INDEX

2006-09-05 Thread Ron Tarrant
Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez wrote: IIRC, you must have all the ports (ports-all in your config file) in order to generate an INDEX, as it will fail otherwise. Yeah, when I realized that I interrupted the cvsup command, edited ports-supfile to change it to ports-all, then reran cvsup. Perhaps

Re: Ports Update: Failed to Generate INDEX

2006-09-05 Thread Ron Tarrant
Hi Kris, Thanks for the reply... Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 09:25:38AM -0400, Ron Tarrant wrote: Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait.."Makefile", lin e 33: Could not find /usr/ports/japanese/gnomelibs/../../x11/gnomelibs/Makefile Why no

Re: Ports Update: Failed to Generate INDEX

2006-09-05 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Ron Tarrant wrote: Hi all, While trying to update ports for FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE using this command: /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu I've seen errors similar to yours when your Mk files are out of date with the rest of your ports tree. As root: # cd /usr/ports/Mk # cvs -R

Re: Ports Update: Failed to Generate INDEX

2006-09-05 Thread Ron Tarrant
Chris Jones wrote: Yup, good idea. I did this and found out that INDEX-6 was already up-to-date. Could this be why index generation failed? Shouldn't have mattered... all that would happen is the generated INDEX would've overwritten the downloaded one. Hmm... Very curious. Thanks.

Re: Ports Update: Failed to Generate INDEX

2006-09-05 Thread Ron Tarrant
Wolfgang Zenker wrote: just to make sure: You did run cvsup after uncommenting ports-all and before running portsdb -Uu, right? Thanks for the reply, Wolfgang. I'm pretty sure I did. That was last night and I have a vague memory of doing it. That tty is tied up right now, so I can't chec

Re: Ports Update: Failed to Generate INDEX

2006-09-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 09:25:38AM -0400, Ron Tarrant wrote: > Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please > wait.."Makefile", lin > e 33: Could not find > /usr/ports/japanese/gnomelibs/../../x11/gnomelibs/Makefile Why not? > have a complete and up-to-date ports collection. (IN

Re: Ports Update: Failed to Generate INDEX

2006-09-05 Thread Chris Jones
Ron Tarrant wrote: Chris Jones wrote: Instead of regenerating the INDEX, why not just download it? # cd /usr/ports # make fetchindex Regards, Chris Jones Thanks for the reply, Chris. Yup, good idea. I did this and found out that INDEX-6 was already up-to-date. Could this be why index gen

Re: Ports Update: Failed to Generate INDEX

2006-09-05 Thread Wolfgang Zenker
Hi, > [..] > 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 abov

Re: Ports Update: Failed to Generate INDEX

2006-09-05 Thread Ron Tarrant
Chris Jones wrote: Instead of regenerating the INDEX, why not just download it? # cd /usr/ports # make fetchindex Regards, Chris Jones Thanks for the reply, Chris. Yup, good idea. I did this and found out that INDEX-6 was already up-to-date. Could this be why index generation failed? -Ron

Re: Ports Update: Failed to Generate INDEX

2006-09-05 Thread Ron Tarrant
Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez wrote: On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 11:01:39 -0300, Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 09:25:38 -0400, Ron Tarrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At first, I commented out all the ports for languages I don't understand such as Russian, J

Re: Ports Update: Failed to Generate INDEX

2006-09-05 Thread Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez
On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 11:01:39 -0300, Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 09:25:38 -0400, Ron Tarrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > At first, I commented out all the ports for languages I don't > > understand such as Russian, Japanese, etc. But I got a simi

Re: Ports Update: Failed to Generate INDEX

2006-09-05 Thread Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez
On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 09:25:38 -0400, Ron Tarrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > co

Re: Ports Update: Failed to Generate INDEX

2006-09-05 Thread Chris Jones
Ron Tarrant wrote: Hi all, While trying to update ports for FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE using this command: /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu I got the following error (please see below for the process leading up to this): Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait.."Makefile", lin e

Ports Update: Failed to Generate INDEX

2006-09-05 Thread Ron Tarrant
Hi all, While trying to update ports for FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE using this command: /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu I got the following error (please see below for the process leading up to this): Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait.."Makefile", lin e 33: Could not find