Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 13:41:41 +0100 From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> To: Gerard Seibert <carmel_ny@outlook.com> Cc: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with index Message-ID: <20170220134141.16704cc3@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> In-Reply-To: <3debec33-5a8c-8f7d-a1a8-7d5a9628e717@FreeBSD.org> References: <CY4PR20MB1397E1EEE2FA832D41D5A59E805E0@CY4PR20MB1397.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> <3debec33-5a8c-8f7d-a1a8-7d5a9628e717@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 12:29:47 +0000 Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On 2017/02/20 11:36, Gerard Seibert wrote: >> I just updated my ports tree using "portsnap". I then ran the following >> command: >> >> /usr/sbin/pkg version -vL= >> >> This resulted in the following message: >> >> postfix-current-3.2.20170129,4 > succeeds index (index has 3.2.0.r1,4) >> >> This does not seem correct. What is happening and how do I correct it? > > Your index file is out of date -- portsnap doesn't updated it because it > changes too fast to be suitable for keeping in SVN. > > You need to > > # make fetchindex > > from /usr/ports to download a pre-built index. Or build your own, by > 'make index'. Or tell 'pkg version' to compare versions directly with > what's in your ports tree by 'pkg version -vP=' (but this will be quite > a bit slower). Portsnap should update the INDEX file. Check /etc/portsnap.conf. There should be a line like this: INDEX INDEX-<N> DESCRIBE-<N> where <N> is the major version of the FreeBSD release you have installed (10, 11 or 12).
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