[wplug-bsd] portsdb -Uu error!

[Dan Pelleg]

Karlos Abel <lists at voidship.net> writes:

> Hello, I'm a relative new user of FreeBSD 5.4.  I'm having the following 
> problem with a portsdb update.
>
> Fresh install, using the sample 'ports-supfile' with just the server 
> information modified.  I did an install from the FreeBSD ftp site with no 
> problems.
>
> Running on a Pentium I 100MHz, which takes forever to create the index.
>

It's not particularly fast on a modern machine, either. I always prefer:

cd /usr/ports && make fetchindex

See if that's enough to bootstrap you out.