From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 27 20:28:45 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 870D816A41F for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 20:28:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BB7A43D45 for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 20:28:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F9145F9B; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 15:28:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 21299-05; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 15:28:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-122-227.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.122.227]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F8EF5C46; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 15:28:30 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <438A16EF.3090907@mac.com> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 15:28:31 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bsd References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: Liste FreeBSD Subject: Re: make index & make fetchindex X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 20:28:45 -0000 bsd wrote: > I have a little script that I run twice a week that updates my ports > automatically. > > I have quite often errors with the "make index" line because I have a > refuse file to fasten the process of updating my server. > > My question is : can I safely replace the "make index" by the a "make > fetchindex" ? If you refuse some ports, no. Eventually, something you use will be updated to depend on something you're refusing, and the dependency will break. Using no refuse file and "make fetchindex" works well. > What will be the main differences if I do so ? > > What are the risks ? The other consideration is that it's fine to update ports automaticly on a test server or your personal machine. It is unwise to update a production machine in such a fashion, you will end up with services being shutdown and not restarted properly without human intervention. For a production system, you should run portaudit instead, and update your ports as need or the desire for a new version demands by hand. -- -Chuck