From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 5 12:34:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33A0F16A4CE for ; Wed, 5 May 2004 12:34:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hunger.joshualokken.com (63-226-239-158.tukw.qwest.net [63.226.239.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8337B43D45 for ; Wed, 5 May 2004 12:34:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joshua@twobirds.us) Received: from freebsd.jolok.org ([10.0.0.3] helo=jolok.org) by hunger.joshualokken.com with smtp (Exim 4.32; FreeBSD) id 1BLS9n-0008eS-Gh; Wed, 05 May 2004 12:34:25 -0700 Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 12:34:26 -0700 From: Joshua Lokken To: kstewart@owt.com Message-ID: <20040505193426.GA3573@freebsd.jolok.org> Mail-Followup-To: kstewart@owt.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20040504042404.GA797@earthlink.net> <20040505164214.GA2102@freebsd.jolok.org> <200405051018.15286.kstewart@owt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200405051018.15286.kstewart@owt.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Little to none... X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "hunger.jolok.org", hasmessageblock similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details.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 the as much as 2 months out of date. [...] Content analysis details: (0.0 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description -------------------------------------------------- cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports Index Update Error - mail/lmtpd Failure X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 19:34:28 -0000 * Kent Stewart [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 as much as 2 months out of date.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