Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 12:34:26 -0700 From: Joshua Lokken <joshua@twobirds.us> To: kstewart@owt.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports Index Update Error - mail/lmtpd Failure Message-ID: <20040505193426.GA3573@freebsd.jolok.org> In-Reply-To: <200405051018.15286.kstewart@owt.com> References: <20040504042404.GA797@earthlink.net> <20040505164214.GA2102@freebsd.jolok.org> <200405051018.15286.kstewart@owt.com>
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* Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> [2004-05-05 10:28]:
> On Wednesday 05 May 2004 09:42 am, Joshua Lokken wrote:
>
> This is really not true. INDEX is updated infrequently and depending on
> the version cvsup downloads will leave you with a version that can be
> as much as 2 months out of date.
Maybe so; still, I've hardly ever (3 times) used portsdb -Uu, and I've
had very few problems installing ports, or using portupgrade to upgrade
ports, and my ports/pkgdb has always been nice and clean. I don't
refuse any ports.
> If you don't use ports such as portupgrade, it doesn't matter because
> make will use the proper parameters from the port location. If you want
> to use portupgrade, you have to rebuild INDEX[-5] and INDEX.db after
> every cvsup.
>
> If you check the update dates on INDEX, you will see that it was updated
> on 1 May, 28 Apr, 3 Apr, and then on 13 Feb. You could have missed an
> important security fix because none of the ports such as portversion or
> pkg_version would have recognized that the port had been updated.
>
> If it has only made a proper INDEX twice for you, I really suspect that
> you are refusing ports that are important to the make index process. I
> build the INDEXs twice a day and the last time make index failed was on
> 12-13 Apr. FWIW, portsdb -U now uses "make index" to build INDEX.
>From my own experience with ports, all of that work seems quite
unnecessary.
--
Joshua
"Mmm Jar-Jar; everyone hates you, but me."
-- Comic Book Guy
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