List,
I observe the following error while installing from ports collection
for any ports in an old FreeBSD server
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.options.mk", line 90: Malformed conditional
(!defined(OPTIONS_DEFINE) || empty(OPTIONS_DEFINE:Monly)"))
I tried the following
1) cvsup and make index throws the following error
Variable ALL_OPTIONS is recursive.
===> arabic/ae_fonts_mono failed
*** Error code 1
Unknown modifier 'u'
2) I done csup -L2 portsupfile && make fetchindex
This also not helped
3) portsnap extract && portsnap fetch update
Nothing improved
All port installation fails, this is the port I am trying to install
star# cd /usr/ports/databases/postgresql84-server/
star# make install clean
"Makefile", line 115: Could not find bsd.port.options.mk
Unknown modifier 'u'
Unknown modifier 'u'
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.options.mk", line 90: Malformed conditional
(!defined(OPTIONS_DEFINE) || empty(OPTIONS_DEFINE:Monly)"))
Variable NO_OPTIONS is recursive.
star# uname -a
FreeBSD star.net 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #1: Thu May 5
15:55:38 IST 2011 [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNELSTAR
i386
I replaced the /usr/ports/Mk directory with the Mk directory
downloaded from the FreeBSD-6.2 archive. Still the error in port
install remains..
1) Is there any solution for this issue other than upgrade ?
2) Please guide me:
I must upgrade this old release. Can any one tell me which order I
need to upgrade?
I mean from 6.2 Release to which next version and next ? please
mention the sequence to reach 9.0 Release
3) Which upgrade method I have to follow ? Source upgrade or
binary upgrade?
I am ready to do source upgrade please shed some light on the pros
and cons of both ways of upgrade.
4) Which all are those system files & directories I need to backup before
doing any of the upgrade to retrieve the system in case anything goes
wrong?
Thanks in advacne
krish
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