Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 21:11:35 -0700
From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
To: Xin LI <d@delphij.net>
Cc: FreeBSD ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Proposal: make portsnap generate INDEX-${OSREL:R} only by default
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On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Xin Li <delphij@delphij.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Currently the default portsnap.conf would generate INDEX-11, INDEX-10
> and INDEX-9. The INDEX file is only used for searching ports, and only
> one (INDEX-${OSREL:R}) file is actually used.
>
> Traditionally, we create all supported INDEX-* files by default, but the
> only users who would benefit from this default are the ones who shares
> ports tree across many systems that runs different FreeBSD releases.
> And even in these scenario, it's likely that they would still want to
> tweak the configuration, as we may be creating more than needed INDEX-*
> files.
>
> So for simplicity and to reduce cycles wasted on everyone's system, I'd
> propose the attached change to head/'s portsnap.conf and similar changes
> to stable/9 and stable/10's portsnap.conf so that only INDEX-${OSREL:R}
> is created by default. Users who want additional INDEX files can
> uncomment the corresponding lines.
>
> Any objections/concerns? I'll commit the change if no objection is
> raised in a week.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> https://www.delphij.net/
> FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! Live free or die
>
Isn't rebuilding the index useful for people running STABLE? I assume that
I need a current index to get useful output from "pkg version -vL=". I am
probably a bit unusual in that I keep a current ports tre on a STABLE
system, but there are a couple of ports that I need to build due to custom
options and I find poudriere overkill for this case. I suspect many people
running STABLE may use portsnap and build everything from ports. (This use
to be common fairly recently and likely still is.)
Or, am I missing the obvious... something I seem to do too often these days.
--
Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
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