Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:26:18 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Kopete 7.3 Message-ID: <20040127232618.GB69820@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200401271437.57571.kstewart@owt.com> References: <004401c3e4cf$647d91e0$c10133ce@dilkie.com> <200401271202.17222.kstewart@owt.com> <20040127213718.GC68505@xor.obsecurity.org> <200401271437.57571.kstewart@owt.com>
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--TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 02:37:57PM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Tuesday 27 January 2004 01:37 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 12:02:17PM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > AFAIK portsdb -U just calls 'make index' internally. The difference > > would then presumably be caused by the make environment: my index > > build tests simulate a clean environment by defining LOCALBASE, > > X11BASE, etc. >=20 > That hasn't always been true. Make index would find 1 or 2 more ports=20 > than -U would. There are also times when make index falls flat and -U=20 > would still produce a useful INDEX. In addition, portsdb -U used to run= =20 > quite a bit faster than make index did. OK, it looks like (now?) it's rolling its own INDEX build in native ruby. I'll take a look at it to see if it produces any different results on a clean ports tree, and if so, why. Kris --TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAFvOaWry0BWjoQKURAhTkAJ9sTbE339umNSMdlWfpd2bo2iO/QQCgkD77 AtlAOiqqdWhz3oCaO/tjB+0= =uR+I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/--
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