INDEX-9 is zero bytes...

JamesElstone

JamesElstone

Hi guys and gals,

I have a standalone system running FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE with a GENERIC kernel that I am updating the ports tree by hand. The steps I am following are:

  1. Manually copying ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/tarballs/ports_current.tar.gz and http://portaudit.freebsd.org/portaudit.tbz to the target system
  2. Manually copying all the required distribution files
  3. Removing the existing ports tree rm -rf /usr/ports
  4. Untar the ports_current.tar.gz cd /usr && tar -xzf /var/tmp/ports_current.tar.gz
  5. Recreate the ports INDEX and READMEs, cd /usr/ports && make index && make readmes

When I come to run make index in the /usr/ports directory, it creates an /usr/ports/INDEX-9 file with zero bytes in length.

So commands like pkg_version -I return
Code: 
portaudit !
and not
Code: 
portaudit =

What am I doing wrong, or is there a way I can fault find this one?

Thanks for the words of wisdom in advance.

James.
 
JamesElstone said:
I have a standalone system running FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE
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Please upgrade to 9.1. FreeBSD 9.0 has been end-of-life since March 2013.

[thread=40469]Topics about unsupported FreeBSD versions[/thread]
 
Thanks for the responses.

DD: The machine is not attached to the internet, and am having to hand transfer files, and was also very curious as to why it was going wrong.

SD: In the process of upgrading now to 9.1 to see if it makes a difference. Have encountered other issues around this and have posted separately here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=40665

Will post back once at 9.1-RELEASE, unless there is an obvious answer / path to explore?

James.
 
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