From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jan 1 15:30:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ralf.artlogix.com (sense-mcglk-240.oz.net [216.39.168.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A41037B41E for ; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 15:30:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by ralf.artlogix.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DA50D1B9C9F; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 15:30:17 -0800 (PST) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: outdated ports/INDEX database References: <20020101223338.A2363@paula.panke.de.freebsd.org> From: Ken McGlothlen Date: 01 Jan 2002 15:30:17 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20020101223338.A2363@paula.panke.de.freebsd.org> Message-ID: <87bsgdy7hy.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org | Any change for an update of ports/INDEX database? Out of curiosity, why isn't the INDEX database a Makefile target these days? Seriously. With the new ports management system, I never rely on INDEX anymore to figure out what's out of date. (I used to; I had a script which would check to see if INDEX had been updated, and diff the new version with the old version with a Perl script to figure out version changes. Now? I use a much shorter Perl script which filters the output from "portupgrade -n '*'".) So why isn't there a "portindex" program or Makefile target that reconstructs the INDEX file based on the information in the individual ports? I wish I wasn't halfway through the Late Project From Hell at this point; I'm tempted to take a crack at it. Wouldn't be a hard Perl script, I'd think. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message