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cc: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Subject: Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports
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On Thursday 27 January 2005 11:00 pm, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>   Has anyone seen this before, I just installed 4.11 and in
> /usr/ports typed make search key="ghostscript" and the machine went
> away for a couple hours to generate an INDEX file.  (this is a P75,
> unfortunately)
>
>   Has anyone else noticed the INDEX file is missing in the
> 4.11-RELEASE ports directory?
>

If you cvsup ports-all, INDEX[-56] is deleted. You want to 
cd /usr/ports
make fetchindex

The fetch of a compressed file is much faster than generating it :).

Kent

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Kent Stewart
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