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Cc: Jurgen Weber <jurgen@ish.com.au>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: portmaster cannot find package
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On 05/17/10 00:51, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
> On 17/05/10 4:17 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
>> The INDEX has to be generated with the same settings as the packages
>> were created with.
> 
> Well, before we tried to run portsnap to update it, we also just copied
> /usr/ports/INDEX* from the build machine to the production server.

But did you _generate_ the INDEX* on the build server, or did you copy
it from somewhere else? And by "generate" I don't mean fetch, I mean did
you actually run 'make index'?


Doug

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