Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 15:34:21 -0400 From: Naram Qashat <cyberbotx@cyberbotx.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Does pkg automatically download INDEX? Message-ID: <53DE8EBD.4090303@cyberbotx.com> In-Reply-To: <53DE8623.1090208@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <53DE7266.5000606@cyberbotx.com> <53DE8623.1090208@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On 08/03/14 14:57, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 03/08/2014 18:33, Naram Qashat wrote: >> I've been noticing this whenever I do a 'pkg version -v', it shows some >> ports as being different from the INDEX, but when I check the actual >> port, it isn't the same version that 'pkg version' shows. I usually >> rebuild my INDEX manually after doing an svn update, so I'm wondering if >> this is pkg doing something or if I have something else doing it. I am >> running FreeBSD 9.2. > > What 'pkg version' does depends on the command line options you give it > and to the presence or not of the ports INDEX or the ports tree in > general. It's all described in pkg-version(8). > > Cheers, > > Matthew Well, I've been using the command line arguments of "-voL '='", and looking at the man page for pkg-version, as far as I can tell, it shouldn't be downloading INDEX, since I do have INDEX-9 on my system. Thanks, Naram Qashat
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