Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:14:59 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Makeing fetchindex really mirror INDEX Message-ID: <20050110171459.GA8756@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20050110191004.73fe13ab@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> References: <20050109143903.GC1187@zaphod.nitro.dk> <20050109174945.7f0353e4@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20050109170219.GF1187@zaphod.nitro.dk> <20050109185948.4470a02d@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20050110191004.73fe13ab@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro>
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On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 07:10:04PM +0200, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 18:59:48 +0100
> Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> wrote:
>=20
> > At the time I wrote the first implementation of "fetchindex" it was
> > supposed to be run at the time as "update". So the PORTSDIR has to be
> > writable (except I've overlooked something). If this hasn't changed,
> > there's no need for .CURDIR.
>=20
> I would be extremely happy if we could have the INDEX-* file and all
> associated things be able to use some other dir that PORTSDIR. This way
> I could export /usr/ports over NFS and be able to build the INDEX
> locally on each client. Is this already possible and I am missing it ?
>=20
> Port tools already support this (e.g. portupgrade's PORTS_INDEX).
>=20
> And a quick grep on ports/Mk/bsd.*.mk suggest that something like this
> would be enough:
>=20
> + INDEXDIR?=3D ${PORTSDIR}
>=20
> - ${PORTSDIR}/${INDEXFILE}
> + ${INDEXDIR}/${INDEXFILE}
>=20
> And some of ports/Tools/* would have to be modified also.
Please submit a complete patch then :-)
Kris
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