Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 03:39:18 -0500 From: Michael Johnson <buhnux@gmail.com> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, kris@freebsd.org Cc: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports Message-ID: <196F548E-7108-11D9-8513-000A95BB7150@ahze.net> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNKECMFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNKECMFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Jan 28, 2005, at 3:28 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Kent Stewart [mailto:kstewart@owt.com] >> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:34 PM >> To: Ted Mittelstaedt >> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports >> >> >> On Thursday 27 January 2005 11:30 pm, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >>>> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Kent >>>> Stewart Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:19 PM >>>> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >>>> Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt >>>> Subject: Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports >>>> >>>> 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 >>>> :). >>> >>> Even faster would have been for it to be on the same CDROM that the >>> rest of the ports directories were copied from. >>> >> >> You would have to go to the cvsweb.cgi attic to find out how >> many months >> it has been removed from ports. >> > > Do you really think I care how long it's been removed? > > Your missing the point. INDEX is supposed to be in the RELEASES > on the CDROMs because the CD's are supposed to be self-contained, > ie: you should not require an Internet connection to get a complete > install. Otherwise there's no point in even bothering to release > the CDROMS in the first place. > > INDEX isn't in SNAPS and such because it makes no sense generating > it for a ports tree that's open for committing since new ports could > be added at any time. However the ports tree on the CDROM is static, > not dynamic. > > Please note the following: > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.11R/schedule.html > Yeah, I totally agree, INDEX should be included in ports.tar.gz for at least RELEASES. Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFB+fo2n4uqfTwEb9YRAkenAJ0Uz7D2qj+tUCRWZ6K/LMDgnor2ywCfdU0Z BVEQdVp4IWS28VtCM51dVLM= =b0IC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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