Re: /usr/ports/INDEX says "** No Description" for everything!

From: Kris Kennaway (kkenn_at_xor.obsecurity.org)
Date: 04/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 01:00:09 GMT

On 2004-04-19, John Cholewa <google@jc-news.com> wrote:
> Anybody else have this problem? After using cvsup for a year without
> subsequently learning how to actually rebuild the INDEX file in
> /usr/ports, a nice fellow taught me how to use "portsdb -uU" to
> recreate it. Unfortunately, now when I do my typical...
>
> grep -i "^appname" /usr/ports/INDEX | awk -F\| '{print($1" "$2"
> "$4);}' | sort -u
>
> ...the third column of my output (that's the "$4", the description
> field in the INDEX file) now consistently says "** No Description"
> instead of the usual informative piece.
>
> Did I miss anything? Should I be typing something slightly different
> than "portsdb -uU"?

What version of FreeBSD, what make.conf configuration options, etc?

Kris

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