From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Nov 27 15:39:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAC2537B401 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 15:39:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DF1843E9C for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 15:39:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from parv_fm@mailsent.net) Received: from sdn-ap-010dcwashp0234.dialsprint.net ([63.188.96.234] helo=moo.holy.cow) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18HBm9-0000lo-00; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 15:39:26 -0800 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E618AB0CC; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:42:12 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:42:12 -0500 From: parv To: Kent Stewart Cc: f-ports Subject: Re: creating ports INDEX from actual installed ports Message-ID: <20021127234212.GA62251@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: Kent Stewart , f-ports References: <20021127045833.GA17350@moo.holy.cow> <5.2.0.9.2.20021126205857.00a7da30@pozo.com> <20021127200435.GB21971@moo.holy.cow> <3DE54ED2.2080401@owt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DE54ED2.2080401@owt.com> 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 in message <3DE54ED2.2080401@owt.com>, wrote Kent Stewart thusly... > > parv wrote: ... > >...despite the errors, both indexes were made correctly. that's > >much more than that can be said about ports own index making. > > I don't believe this statement. The INDEX created by "make index" is > ~30KB larger than the one created by portsdb -U. For example, > > ruby# ll bak-make > total 9568 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3053030 Nov 27 14:56 INDEX > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6723584 Nov 27 14:56 INDEX.db > ruby# ll bak-portsdb > total 9464 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3023522 Nov 27 13:55 INDEX > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6642688 Nov 27 13:55 INDEX.db kent, in my situation where several of the ports/directories are missing, "make index" is failing w/ "no entry" messages which results in INDEX built only up to the last port which didn't cause the "no entry" error messages. in this situation, "make index" creates INDEX much smaller than "portsdb -U". until "make index" works for me, i can only take your word that "portsdb -U" may not be producing the right INDEX. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message