From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 25 15:23:49 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 31C27F4B for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:23:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-in-13.arcor-online.net (mail-in-13.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.53]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mx.arcor.de", Issuer "Thawte SSL CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D6C332D3E for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:23:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.13]) by mx.arcor.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E839B2136DE for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 16:51:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-in-14.arcor-online.net (mail-in-14.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.54]) by mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5E8F7DA4DF for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 16:51:29 +0200 (CEST) X-Greylist: Passed host: 92.75.197.182 X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.8.2 mail-in-14.arcor-online.net 8B3E29BE3D Received: from lorvorc.mips.inka.de (dslb-092-075-197-182.092.075.pools.vodafone-ip.de [92.75.197.182]) by mail-in-14.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8B3E29BE3D for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 16:51:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from lorvorc.mips.inka.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lorvorc.mips.inka.de (8.14.9/8.14.7) with ESMTP id s6PEpPMW049117 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 16:51:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from news@lorvorc.mips.inka.de) Received: (from news@localhost) by lorvorc.mips.inka.de (8.14.9/8.14.9/Submit) id s6PEpPPa049116 for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 16:51:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from news) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org From: Christian Weisgerber Newsgroups: list.freebsd.ports Subject: Re: Lots of installed ports show "succeeds index" Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 14:51:25 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <86vbqnhp8t.wl-hskuhra@eumx.net> <86tx67hp0x.wl-hskuhra@eumx.net> <53D00A72.9090306@infracaninophile.co.uk> X-Trace: lorvorc.mips.inka.de 1406299885 48956 ::1 (25 Jul 2014 14:51:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@mips.inka.de User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (FreeBSD) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:23:49 -0000 On 2014-07-24, Kevin Oberman 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