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On Fri 2006-05-12 (07:31), Jonathan Noack wrote:
> Ah, I made a mistake in my explanation.  Replace INDEX-5.db with
> INDEX-5.  Sorry for the confusion...
> 
> "make fetchindex" downloads the INDEX-x file (where 'x' is the major
> release number of the version of FreeBSD you are using -- in this case
> '5').  When this file is newer than INDEX-x.db, the portupgrade tools
> will automatically build an updated version of INDEX-x.db.  As such, it
> is not necessary to do anything further than "make fetchindex".
> Building INDEX-x takes forever (and may be overheating your machine
> causing freezes/reboots), but building INDEX-x.db is quite fast.
> 
> If you want to make sure everything is updated with a single command,
> replace the '-U' with '-F' for "portsdb -Fu" (hehe -- I love it when
> arguments work out like that...).  That will 1) download the INDEX-x
> file instead of building it from scratch, and then 2) build an updated
> INDEX-x.db.
> 
> Correction: portsnap automatically builds an up-to-date INDEX-x, not
> INDEX-5.db.  "portversion" is building the INDEX-x.db file from INDEX-x.

ah ok, thanx that's much clearer now.

so for interest's sake:

'portsdb -F' is the same as 'make fetchindex', and
'portsdb -u' is the same as the first part of 'portversion'

right?