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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"
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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.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de



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