From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 21 19:29:26 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64088106564A for ; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 19:29:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout025.mac.com (asmtpout025.mac.com [17.148.16.100]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C7EC8FC15 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 19:29:26 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.209.4.71]) by asmtp025.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Exchange Server 7u4-20.01 64bit (built Nov 21 2010)) with ESMTPSA id <0LDS006HXM4XLS90@asmtp025.mac.com> for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:29:21 -0800 (PST) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.2.15,1.0.148,0.0.0000 definitions=2010-12-21_07:2010-12-21, 2010-12-21, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=6.0.2-1010190000 definitions=main-1012210098 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: <4D10F79D.7080100@ifdnrg.com> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:29:21 -0800 Message-id: References: <4D10F79D.7080100@ifdnrg.com> To: Paul Macdonald X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsd 6 index file X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 19:29:26 -0000 On Dec 21, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Paul Macdonald wrote: > I have a couple of older boxes on freebsd 6 that are reporting ports succeeding index, even after a fresh index has been downloaded. > e.g > portupgrade-2.4.8_1,2 > succeeds index (index has 2.4.8,2) > spamass-milter-0.3.1_11 > succeeds index (index has 0.3.1_10) FreeBSD-6 is past it's end of life, and the ports tree no longer maintains a current index file for 6.x. You can do a "make index" yourself, but there are no guarantees that this will continue to work as time passes. Time to upgrade to FreeBSD 7 or 8... Regards, -- -Chuck