From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 9 10:24:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B50937B401 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 10:24:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-94-58-56.stny.rr.com [24.94.58.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1798543EA9 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 10:24:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 188834FC8E; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 13:10:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 115E94A0E for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 13:10:48 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 13:10:48 -0500 (EST) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: INDEX file layout In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, John Bleichert wrote: > Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 12:20:26 -0500 (EST) > From: John Bleichert > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: INDEX file layout > > Hello All > > Where is the layout for the /usr/ports/INDEX file documented? Looks like a > bunch of '|'-delimited fields and I'd like to know for sure what each > field is. > > Also, I've noticed that some boxes have a /var/db/pkgdb.db file, and some > do not - where does this file come from? Is it generated by the > portupgrade tools? > Never mind about this second question, I was looking in the wrong place (it's in /var/db/pkg), but my first question still stands. # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message