From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Oct 4 13:36:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from router.darlow.co.uk (pc2-bigg2-0-cust101.lut.cable.ntl.com [213.107.35.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61E2A37B401 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 13:36:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ideal.darlow.co.uk (IDENT:1000@ideal.darlow.co.uk [192.168.0.3]) by router.darlow.co.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id f94KaED91062 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 21:36:14 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from neil@darlow.co.uk) From: Neil Darlow Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 20:36:14 GMT Message-ID: <20011004.20361400@ideal.darlow.co.uk> Subject: RE: Is INDEX being updated? To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; StarOffice/5.2;Linux) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi All, Thanks for the responses. I don't cvsup ports-all to maintain my /usr/ports hierarchy. I use about 40 ports and I built /usr/ports by anoncvs checkout of just those that I use. The recent death of anoncvs.freebsd.org has prevented me from updating in my normal manner with anoncvs. I appreciate the convenience of cvsup for the src-all tree but feel that the near 100MB quoted for the full ports-all tree is a little much disk real-estate for my needs. My main use of pkg_version is with the periodic/weekly/400.pkg-status cron job pointed at the master INDEX file. Looks like I can't rely on=20 this method to check the status of my ports without first building a copy of INDEX locally :-( Regards, Neil Darlow M.Sc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message