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Date:      Wed, 28 Nov 2012 08:36:55 +0100
From:      Erwin Lansing <erwin@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com>
Cc:        Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: INDEX files on servers outdated
Message-ID:  <20121128073655.GL4474@droso.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1ufY_myXWQp6_8N9Gr5V8AOKEhYTimS4NsSvwbrciMj6Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 03:13:40PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:
> > The INDEX files on the FreeBSD servers are outdated.
> >
> >   (on 9-stable, amd64)
> >
> >   # svn up /usr/ports
> >   # cd /usr/ports
> >   # make fetchindex
> >   # grep ^firefox-1 INDEX-9
> >   firefox-16.0.2,1|/usr/ports/www/firefox|/usr/local|Web browser based
> >   firefox-10.0.10,1|/usr/ports/www/firefox-esr|/usr/local|Web browser
> >
> > firefox was updated to 17.0 on November 20, almost a week ago.
> >
> > The old INDEX file can cause portupgrade and portmaster to not show
> > available updates.
> >
> > Portmaster:
> >
> >   # svn up /usr/ports
> >   # portmaster -L --index-only | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install'
> >   ===>>> 791 total installed ports
> >         ===>>> There are no new versions available
> >
> > Portmaster does detect changes if --index-only is left out, but it takes
> > much longer and so is not used by some users.
> >
> > Portupgrade:
> >
> >   # portsdb -Fu && portversion -vl'<'
> >   #
> >
> > There is no indication to the user that the index file is outdated and
> > should be rebuilt locally.  (I think but have not verified that the index
> > file retrieved by portsnap is correct.)
> >
> > I started to enter a PR for this, but realized it may be a known problem.
> > If so, can we just delete the index files so fetchindex errors out instead
> > of delivering an outdated file?
> 
> Looks like fall-out from the security incident. I hope they start
> being updated, but I am falling back to "portsdb -Uu" or "make -C
> /usr/ports index" to generate the index file. Not ideal and rather
> slow, but it works.
> 
It is.  Unfortunatly, the servers used for all ports related things,
including package building, but also INDEX updating, are still down.

Erwin

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