INDEX-6 and FreeBSD

I’m FreeBSD addict, use ports everyday and can’t live without port 🙂

Today, one of our server don’t seem hit firewall restriction and I nothing I can do .

I see INDEX-6 everytime I try to issue command : make fetchindex but nothing show up.

After scp INDEX-6 from other server I can update the ports.

ftp# cd /usr/ports
ftp# make fetchindex

^Cfetch: transfer interrupted

ftp# portversion -v | grep ‘<‘

Fetching the ports index …
^Cfetch: transfer interrupted
failed to fetch INDEX!
Updating the ports index … failed to generate INDEX!
index generation error
database file error

mail# scp /usr/ports/INDEX-6 [email protected]:/home/mother

Password:
INDEX-6
                100%   22MB  21.8MB/s   00:00

ftp# pwd

/usr/ports

ftp# mv /home/mother/INDEX-6 /usr/ports/
ftp# portversion -v | grep ‘<‘

[Updating the portsdb <format:bdb_btree> in /usr/ports … – 17745 port
entries found
………1000………2000….

…..3000………4000……...5000………6000……...7000………8000……...9000………10000……...

11000………12000……...13000………14000……...15000………16000……...17000…….
….. done]
mysql-client-5.0.45_1       <  needs updating (port has 5.0.51)
mysql-server-5.0.45_1       <  needs updating (port has 5.0.51)
phpMyAdmin-2.11.2.1         <  needs updating (port has 2.11.2.2)
png-1.2.22                  <  needs updating (port has 1.2.23)
rsync-2.6.9_1               <  needs updating (port has 2.6.9_2)
ruby-1.8.6.111,1            <  needs updating (port has 1.8.6.111_1,1)
squid-2.6.16                <  needs updating (port has 2.6.17)
ftp#

great, I can see listing ports needed to update 🙂

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