From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 25 03:48:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 03E7816A420 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 03:48:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8139643D48 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 03:48:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A1901A3C1C for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 19:48:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 51F185186D; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 22:48:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 22:48:52 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060225034852.GA41579@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20060225023315.GX18867@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="jRHKVT23PllUwdXP" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060225023315.GX18867@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: Re: index update X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 03:48:54 -0000 --jRHKVT23PllUwdXP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 09:33:15PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people, >=20 > Reading the manpage for portsdb, and looking at some examples where this = is > run >=20 > /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu >=20 > I'm wondering what the difference between this and >=20 > cd /usr/ports && make index >=20 > 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 --jRHKVT23PllUwdXP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD/9OjWry0BWjoQKURAjBtAKC+0ZlN2I9ntJ8e+ML47XOl90PMAQCfQZzB mKOtviRZu3Oli32d+bdYP90= =e5qD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jRHKVT23PllUwdXP--