Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:43:47 +0100 From: Andre Wensing <andre@wensing.org> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: INDEX has lower version of ports than installed ones Message-ID: <4921E593.3030206@wensing.org> In-Reply-To: <20081117195947.GA38547@icarus.home.lan> References: <4921C5F1.8070906@wensing.org> <20081117195947.GA38547@icarus.home.lan>
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Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 08:28:49PM +0100, Andre Wensing wrote: >> Does anyone know if INDEX has been updated recently? For some reason >> `pkg_version -IvL =` reports me that I've got newer ports than INDEX has: >> >> server# pkg_version -IvL = >> amavisd-new-2.6.1_1,1 > succeeds index (index has 2.6.1,1) >> cyrus-sasl-2.1.22_2 > succeeds index (index has 2.1.22_1) >> cyrus-sasl-saslauthd-2.1.22_1 > succeeds index (index has 2.1.22) >> dcraw-8.88 > succeeds index (index has 8.86) >> dirmngr-1.0.2 > succeeds index (index has 1.0.1_2) >> dovecot-1.1.3_1 > succeeds index (index has 1.1.3) >> mysql-client-5.0.67_1 > succeeds index (index has 5.0.67) >> mysql-server-5.0.67_1 > succeeds index (index has 5.0.67) >> pcre-7.8 > succeeds index (index has 7.7_1) >> postfix-2.5.5,1 > succeeds index (index has 2.5.4,1) >> rrdtool-1.3.3 > succeeds index (index has 1.3.1) >> squirrelmail-1.4.16 > succeeds index (index has 1.4.15_1) >> >> >> server# uname -a >> FreeBSD server.home.local 6.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.4-PRERELEASE #6: Wed >> Sep 24 06:04:20 CEST 2008 >> root@server.home.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 >> >> How can this be? The ports-tree has thawed, right (at least, according >> to the release-schedule for 6.4)? > > When you update your ports via csup (not sure about portsnap), the INDEX > file **is not** updated. > > You can either rebuild it yourself (make index), or you can fetch it by > doing "make fetchindex". I prefer the latter. > Thanx. A `make fetchindex` and a `portsdb -fu` (after deleting the existing INDEX-6.db) did the trick. Stupid I didn't think of this earlier, but it bugged me fr 2 weeks and couldn't figure out why... Sorry for the noise. Dré
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