Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 14:51:25 +0000 (UTC) From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lots of installed ports show "succeeds index" Message-ID: <slrnlt4rnd.1fpr.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> 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 2014-07-24, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Is there a reason you want to avoid using the index? It's worked just >> fine >> > for me for several months on systems with well over 1000 ports installed. >> >> It isn't in sync with my ports tree > > 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) Which fetches an INDEX file that is regularly generated on some FreeBSD server, but is not in sync with the exact revision of the ports tree I just updated to. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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