Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 21:41:27 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Naram Qashat <cyberbotx@cyberbotx.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Does pkg automatically download INDEX? Message-ID: <20140804214127.000030c9@Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <53DE9B38.2000805@cyberbotx.com> References: <53DE7266.5000606@cyberbotx.com> <53DE8623.1090208@infracaninophile.co.uk> <53DE8EBD.4090303@cyberbotx.com> <53DE934C.101@FreeBSD.org> <53DE9B38.2000805@cyberbotx.com>
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On Sun, 03 Aug 2014 16:27:36 -0400 Naram Qashat <cyberbotx@cyberbotx.com> wrote: > On 08/03/14 15:53, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On 03/08/2014 20:34, Naram Qashat wrote: > >> Well, I've been using the command line arguments of "-voL '='", and > >> looking at the man page for pkg-version, as far as I can tell, it > >> shouldn't be downloading INDEX, since I do have INDEX-9 on my > >> system. > > > > pkg(8) doesn't download or attempt to build an INDEX at all. It > > can use one if one happens to be already available, but not > > otherwise. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Matthew > > I'm at a bit of a loss, then. While I can't say for sure if pkg is > doing something unintended, there seems to be something on my system > that is downloading INDEX without my knowledge. > > My usual way of updating my INDEX is using p5-FreeBSD-Portindex to > generate the INDEX file, and using that INDEX to update the files > that portupgrade uses. I run that manually, so I have nothing that > would do that for me automatically, to my knowledge. How do you update the ports tree, with portsnap or with svn? Portnap also updates the index. Bye, Alexander. -- http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander@Leidinger.net: PGP 0xC773696B3BAC17DC http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild@FreeBSD.org : PGP 0xC773696B3BAC17DC
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