Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 22:48:52 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: index update Message-ID: <20060225034852.GA41579@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060225023315.GX18867@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> References: <20060225023315.GX18867@tigger.digitaltorque.ca>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 09:33:15PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people, > > Reading the manpage for portsdb, and looking at some examples where this is > run > > /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu > > I'm wondering what the difference between this and > > cd /usr/ports && make index > > is. Don't they both rebuild the index? Yes (in fact the former calls the latter), but the former also rebuilds the INDEX.db used by portupgrade and friends. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD/9OjWry0BWjoQKURAjBtAKC+0ZlN2I9ntJ8e+ML47XOl90PMAQCfQZzB mKOtviRZu3Oli32d+bdYP90= =e5qD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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