portsdb: Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry

[Bernard El-Hagin]

Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:

>On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 07:44:45AM +0100, Bernard El-Hagin wrote:
>
>> > > Since I have this same problem I ran 'make describe' and here's the
>> > > result:
>> > > 
>> > > -------------
>> > > ===> devel/sparc-rtems-gdb
>> > > *** Error code 1
>> > > 
>> > > Stop in /usr/ports/devel.
>> > > *** Error code 1
>> > > 
>> > > Stop in /usr/ports.
>> > > -------------
>> > 
>> > What version of FreeBSD are you running?
>> 
>> 
>> Sorry, I should have mentioned that. I'm running 5.1-Release.
>
>I think there's something in one of the included makefiles that relies
>on a change to make(1) that happened after 5.1-RELEASE.  Note that
>only the most recent release is supported by the ports collection
>(http://www.freebsd.org/ports); try updating to 5.2 or 4.9, which
>should fix the problem.


Wow, that really sucks, since I've had zero luck updating to 5.2 the two
times I tried, and going with 4.9 from 5.1R means a reinstall, rather
than an upgrade (I'm led to believe).


Thanks for your help.


-- 
Cheers,
Bernard