From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 4 19:48:51 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EEED7831 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2014 19:48:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ebusiness-leidinger.de (mail.ebusiness-leidinger.de [217.11.53.44]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A1FAD20D4 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2014 19:48:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outgoing.leidinger.net (p57BB8B5B.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [87.187.139.91]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mail.ebusiness-leidinger.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8EFD08620CB; Mon, 4 Aug 2014 21:41:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (Titan.Leidinger.net [192.168.1.17]) by outgoing.leidinger.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73EE43B68; Mon, 4 Aug 2014 21:41:25 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=leidinger.net; s=outgoing-alex; t=1407181285; bh=YWwXGacCfmVd1II4cQu7se8yD+yvtUNajxniG97RLN8=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References; b=Z52j5sUqbdPePdLIjz0ipZnH//M2T/CaZASCleCKuobYNh2If0eNa2UPj/Rv/ZWKA S6eScn7v/SAwXElGNqLUt5sQ2moiHaY1onVkRrbd8mmVFg9YUlC0euW8UizCn4TNGa Ufqb3+iD3V17C+EZuNfvMT3qV8AbXYa9pD9dg7MCm6+m2gAMUL1fUIP8tS2dDN6uRr eHXEPlhF1Obe23C28fN9cpDa5BqEEelyBXpkg2GQNq4WDvM9fRmmrBR7cplyCYYqDx J/dsT+eSKERrt3EbZnDHtmkJTotdTCGWBobmpOMtvnXfRuaMqO9Ds1NiISIDXqUZSU ECXdD4b/2f0PQ== Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 21:41:27 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Naram Qashat 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> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.3-30-gd68093 (GTK+ 2.16.6; i586-pc-mingw32msvc) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-EBL-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-EBL-MailScanner-ID: 8EFD08620CB.A2469 X-EBL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-EBL-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, spamhaus-ZEN, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-1.1, required 6, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.00, DKIM_SIGNED 0.10, DKIM_VALID -0.10, DKIM_VALID_AU -0.10) X-EBL-MailScanner-From: alexander@leidinger.net X-EBL-MailScanner-Watermark: 1407786088.83808@kUnxsZzZwlyLXMB0OAIk6w X-EBL-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 19:48:52 -0000 On Sun, 03 Aug 2014 16:27:36 -0400 Naram Qashat 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