From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 30 12:31:50 2002 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 03B8537B400 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 12:31:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5305143E3B for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 12:31:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA15266; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 12:31:32 -0700 Message-ID: <3D6FC813.9050800@owt.com> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 12:31:31 -0700 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020508 Netscape6/6.2.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: parv Cc: Beech , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports tree stuck in the past References: <20020830023025.GA7137@moo.holy.cow> <20020830085403.24E3F6BF@nebula.anchoragerescue.org> <20020830172140.GA15746@moo.holy.cow> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG parv wrote: > in message <20020830085403.24E3F6BF@nebula.anchoragerescue.org>, > wrote Beech thusly... > >>On Thursday 29 August 2002 06:30 pm, parv wrote: >> >>>...contents of /usr3/cvsup/sup/refuse... >>> >>>ports/INDEX <------------------------------| >>>ports/Tools/make_index <------------------| You need these two ports. >>>ports/x11-wm/fvwm2-devel >>>ports/japanese >>> >> >> >>Take INDEX and Tools/make_index out of your refuse file. Then from >>the top level of your ports do a "make index" to restore your >>index file. After that you should be fine. Just out of curiosity >>what posessed you to remove the index and tools? You shouldn't >>remove anything in the ports tree that starts with a capitol >>letter. >> > > downloading INDEX takes a lot of time & does not always reflects the > reality. if we/i are/am going to create new INDEX anyway, then > what's the point in downloading INDEX? I tried this and it felt like it saved 5 minutes even when I was using my local mirror. I always run portsdb -uU when I finish and had never thought about adding INDEX to my refuse file. FWIW, most of the time my INDEX is more current than what was being downloaded. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message