Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 01:38:28 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> Cc: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>, FreeBSD Ports ML <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Lots of installed ports show "succeeds index" Message-ID: <20140725063828.GG1611@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1tai9Z=WeXm3PduOWmQ461rfiwkptHsKCufD0w1Y8hbrg@mail.gmail.com> References: <86vbqnhp8t.wl-hskuhra@eumx.net> <86tx67hp0x.wl-hskuhra@eumx.net> <53D00A72.9090306@infracaninophile.co.uk> <slrnlt1s9b.bhl.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> <CAN6yY1tVFpH4d_pQSQOs0rtBkZjZMSKcc=Rbxaqz%2BUSJobyvMw@mail.gmail.com> <slrnlt2uvn.p3q.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> <CAN6yY1tai9Z=WeXm3PduOWmQ461rfiwkptHsKCufD0w1Y8hbrg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 03:58:34PM -0700 I heard the voice of Kevin Oberman, and lo! it spake thus: > > Which begs the question, why is it out of sync? If you update your ports > tree, all you need to do is: > make -C /usr/ports fetchindex (takes a few seconds) That's only "probably close, if you do it shortly after svn up". > There are a couple of other "or"s, but I'll just say that you are > probably working too hard if you don't use an index. I prefer "or use portsnap, which pulls along INDEX for the tree as built (except when INDEX build is broken anyway, in which case it gets a little stale)". If portsnap had no other redeeming qualities, I'd probably still use it just for that one... -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.
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