Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 18:24:01 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Naram Qashat <cyberbotx@cyberbotx.com> Cc: Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Ports ML <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Does pkg automatically download INDEX? Message-ID: <CAN6yY1tu-M1g6h3ihmOxd=dTrVQHccTWrXZPkn-dmcPteTo4vg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53DE9B38.2000805@cyberbotx.com> References: <53DE7266.5000606@cyberbotx.com> <53DE8623.1090208@infracaninophile.co.uk> <53DE8EBD.4090303@cyberbotx.com> <53DE934C.101@FreeBSD.org> <53DE9B38.2000805@cyberbotx.com>
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On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Naram Qashat <cyberbotx@cyberbotx.com> wrote: > On 08/03/14 15:53, Matthew Seaman wrote: > >> On 03/08/2014 20:34, Naram Qashat wrote: >> >>> Well, I've been using the command line arguments of "-voL '='", and >>> looking at the man page for pkg-version, as far as I can tell, it >>> shouldn't be downloading INDEX, since I do have INDEX-9 on my system. >>> >> >> pkg(8) doesn't download or attempt to build an INDEX at all. It can use >> one if one happens to be already available, but not otherwise. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Matthew >> > > I'm at a bit of a loss, then. While I can't say for sure if pkg is doing > something unintended, there seems to be something on my system that is > downloading INDEX without my knowledge. > > My usual way of updating my INDEX is using p5-FreeBSD-Portindex to > generate the INDEX file, and using that INDEX to update the files that > portupgrade uses. I run that manually, so I have nothing that would do that > for me automatically, to my knowledge. > > > Thanks, > Naram Qasha > Are you doing anything between building the index and running "pkg version"? I can tell you that portmaster will download the "latest" index unless you use the --no-index-fetch option. I don't know about other tools, but it caught me by surpize. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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