From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 4 02:25:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4222816A4CE for ; Sat, 4 Sep 2004 02:25:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAF6D43D41 for ; Sat, 4 Sep 2004 02:25:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from [207.41.94.233] (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i842PPkG010672; Fri, 3 Sep 2004 19:25:26 -0700 From: kstewart To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 19:25:47 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <7A727F81-FCE2-11D8-8BE7-000A95EFF4CA@foolishgames.com> In-Reply-To: <7A727F81-FCE2-11D8-8BE7-000A95EFF4CA@foolishgames.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200409031925.47777.kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: portindex/portindexdb X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 02:25:58 -0000 On Thursday 02 September 2004 06:17 am, Lucas Holt wrote: > After seeing several posts recently on portindex, I decided to try it > out. Most of the posts claimed you had to run portsdb -u after > portindex. > > Is it safe to use portindexdb instead of portsdb -u? > > Another words I want to do this: > cvsup ... > portindex > portindexdb > portversion -v | grep "<" > > Lucas Holt FWIW, portindexdb will generate INDEX-5.db just fine on 5-current. It doesn't have the problem with ruby bus erroring like portsdb -u does. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html Support the Bison at http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/