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Date:      Sun, 8 Feb 2004 15:01:46 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, ports@FreeBSD.org, knu@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Differences between 'make index' and 'portsdb -U'
Message-ID:  <20040208230146.GA22388@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040208190413.GA421@moo.holy.cow>
References:  <20040207082502.GA67113@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040208190413.GA421@moo.holy.cow>

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On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 02:04:13PM -0500, parv wrote:

> > Modulo the cosmetic bug #1 above, this all counts in favour of using
> > 'make index' to build your indexes, and against using 'portsdb -U'
>=20
> Kris you forgot to mention that portupgrade will create a usable
> INDEX on FreeBSD 4.8 and more importantly when ports tree is
> incomplete, unlike 'make index'.

Since neither of those are supported, I'm not too worried.  It's much
more important that portsdb -U could not be used to make an index that
did not contain errors.

Kris

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