Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 13:18:24 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports via svn, make fetchindex and make compatibility with NetBSD Message-ID: <20131203131824.79bfddcd@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <552767.35584.bm@smtp111.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <552767.35584.bm@smtp111.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, 3 Dec 2013 04:41:17 -0800 (PST) Thomas Mueller wrote: > Is it necessary to make fetchindex after downloading or updating the > ports tree using svn? Not absolutely, it's needed for portupgrade, port searches, and a number of utilities use it for speeding various things up. > I have new installations of head and 10-stable where I so far can't > connect to the Internet, though I can from Linux and NetBSD-current > amd64. > > So I use subversion, built on NetBSD from pkgsrc, to checkout and > update ports tree as well as system source tree. > > But I believe I can't run "make fetchindex" without Internet > connection. > You can run "make index" instead, it takes about 3 minutes on my desktop.
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