Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:02:17 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: "Lee Dilkie" <lee@dilkie.com>, "'Sean Chittenden'" <sean@chittenden.org>, <mdunham@kestrelworks.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kopete 7.3 Message-ID: <200401271202.17222.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <004401c3e4cf$647d91e0$c10133ce@dilkie.com> References: <004401c3e4cf$647d91e0$c10133ce@dilkie.com>
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On Tuesday 27 January 2004 04:16 am, Lee Dilkie wrote: > > This is because your INDEX file is stale (it's almost always stale, > > actually), but INDEX gets updated periodically (once every > > two-three weeks or so) to combat this problem. Use `portsdb -Uu` > > to update your index... it takes about 15-20min of really hard disk > > grinding (I do it about nightly on a nice SCSI machine and then scp > > the resulting INDEX to a farm of boxen). > > > > -sc > > > > -- > > Sean Chittenden > > I always do a "make index" in the /usr/ports directory. Have I been > doing it wrong? > No, I also use make index because historically there were significantly fewer error messages. I think someone almost got hysterical from surprise a short time ago when portsdb -U completed with out a single message. My attitude is that if Kris' script ran portsdb -U, then I would use it everytime I cvsup ports-all instead of using make index. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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