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Subject: Re: Question on cvsuping ports tree
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On Saturday 31 January 2004 11:27 pm, jwilliams@pop.courtesymortgage.com 
wrote:
> I was reading a article at www.onlamp.com in the FreeBSD section
> regarding the use of the portupgrade package. As I was reading the
> article, it stated that everytime you cvsup your ports tree, your
> /usr/ports/INDEX file should reflect the update with a new time
> stamp, showing the last time the ports tree was updated.
>
> After updating my tree today and checking out the /usr/ports/INDEX
> file, it should the incorrect date. It should a date about a week old
> actually.
>
> SO my question is, what is going on? Is the article incorrect in what
> it stated? Or is there something else I need to do that I am missing?
>
> I do appreciate the help and explanation.
>


Yoiu missed the section on "Updating the Ports Database", which must be 
done everytime you cvsup ports-all for portupgrade to work properly.

Kent

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