[wplug-bsd] portsdb -Uu error!

[Bill Moran]

Karlos Abel <lists at voidship.net> wrote:

> I tried that earlier without success.. do you think the error is in my 
> installed packages or the pre-db index?

I don't know what the error _is_ to guess.

> When I fetch a new index, it turns 
> up INDEX-5.

If you're running FreeBSD 5.x, then "make fetchindex" should grab
INDEX-5.db

> I tried 'fetchindex' then 'portsdb -u' and it went okay, but an 
> ensuing build gave told me that there was no database in place.  

*sigh*

So you used fetchindex to download a working index, then you used
portsdb -u to erase the working index and try to build a new one, which
didn't work.

Use "make fetchindex" as a _replacement_ for portsdb, not a suppliment.

> 
> I'm pretty much out of ideas.
> 
> Thanks for the advice, everyone who wrote in, though.  
> 
> On Wednesday 03 August 2005 05:16, Dan Pelleg wrote:
> > 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.
> 
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