port entry error

[Matthew Seaman]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 02:10:28PM -0500, Steven Friedrich wrote:
> After cvsupping, I do a portsdb -Uu, but I get warnings about duplicate 
> entries, and today, I got a "Not in due form".
> 
> What's the cure(s)?

> [Updating the portsdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /usr/ports ... - 12325 port 
> entriesfound ...../usr/ports/INDEX:518:aureal-kmod-1.3_4.1: 1.3_4.1: Not in 
> due form: '<version>[_<revision>][,<epoch>]'.
 
> For the "form" problem, isn't the last period supposed to be a comma?
> i.e., aureal-kmod-1.3_4.1 should be aureal-kmod-1.3_4,1 ??

Yeah -- that's a mistake in the aureal-kmod port.  The fix is to wait
for the maintainer / ports committers to commit a fix to the ports
tree and then cvsup again.  In the mean time, you can just ignore the
error message and the rest of the ports tree will work as well as
usual.

In detail the problem is this -- quoting from the port Makefile:

    PORTNAME=       aureal-kmod
    PORTVERSION=    1.5
    PORTREVISION=   4.1        <---- This item should be an integer value

At least, that's according to the latest Porter's Handbook and bsd.port.mk

   Cheers,

   Matthew

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