From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Nov 9 6:55:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D9CD37B401; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 06:55:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (wwweasel.geeksrus.net [64.8.210.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7584A43E3B; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 06:55:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alane@wwweasel.geeksrus.net) Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA9EtiAX032653; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 09:55:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from alane@wwweasel.geeksrus.net) Received: (from alane@localhost) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gA9EthnF032652; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 09:55:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from alane) Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 09:55:43 -0500 From: AlanE To: Jeremy Lea Cc: Kris Kennaway , ports@FreeBSD.ORG, portmgr@FreeBSD.ORG, re@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need to use a different INDEX for 5.0 Message-ID: <20021109145543.GA31719@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> Reply-To: alane@geeksrus.net Mail-Followup-To: Jeremy Lea , Kris Kennaway , ports@FreeBSD.ORG, portmgr@FreeBSD.ORG, re@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20021109034006.GA28876@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20021109130450.GA4131@shale.csir.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021109130450.GA4131@shale.csir.co.za> X-message-flag: Every program expands until it can send mail. Except Exchange Server. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 03:04:50PM +0200, Jeremy Lea wrote: >Hi, > >On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 07:40:08PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: >> I'm going to add a /usr/ports/INDEX-5 > >This might also help... Umm, what about also checking the environment first for PORTS_INDEX, which is used by portsdb in the portupgrade package? In reality, you need to parse (ruby program) the portupgrade config file if it exists, and get the value of PORTS_INDEX from there, and only if it doesn't exist (it will) use your default values. The "make search" code needs to do this too .... hehehe. -- Alan Eldridge Unix/C(++) IT Pro for 20 yrs, seeking new employment. (http://wwweasel.geeksrus.net/~alane/resume.txt) KDE, KDE-FreeBSD Teams (http://www.kde.org, http://freebsd.kde.org/) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message