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Date:      Mon, 23 May 2005 11:20:29 -0400
From:      Bob Perry <rperry@gti.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
Subject:   Re: Confused with Refuse
Message-ID:  <200505231120.29223.rperry@gti.net>
In-Reply-To: <44sm0e133s.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
References:  <200505221429.58567.rperry@gti.net> <44sm0e133s.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>

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On Mon May 23 2005 9:30 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Bob Perry <rperry@gti.net> writes:
> > About to synch up the entire source tree with RELENG_5_4_0_RELEASE. 
> > Earlier I created a refuse file, (/var/db/sup/refuse), when I upgraded my
> > doc and ports collection in 5.3 but remember reading somewhere that a
> > refuse file was not necessarily recommended when updating an entire
> > source tree.  Is that still the case?
>
> You may not be able to build your own INDEX, and dependency-tracking
> packages may get confused if the INDEX doesn't match the installed
> ports, but things won't necessarily break.  But you're on your own;
> please don't report problems unless you know they occur with a fully
> updated tree.
 That's the sort of warning I remember.  Just couldn't readily understand why 
the Handbook still recommends creating it.

Thanks for your response.

Bob Perry



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