From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 28 08:39:23 2005 Return-Path: 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 BA0FE16A4CE for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 08:39:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0876543D3F for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 08:39:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from buhnux@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id f1so416716rne for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:39:22 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:content-transfer-encoding:cc:subject:date:to:x-pgp-agent:x-mailer:from; b=q55/YYbHuL8x+cNiPdbXqJdc2O7Ohsnp9FyxTMasL3v4soZWFqXRXSb1kiUFkK5flRmOITba+JdV//g4WfA0+53RuF05pIFpWL4+P4SF8xX49lEzk4cYUYWESngPiOROM9C4kmAtq5GkvHbxrMSO/pGIul0n5Y5jx1CKsDztTTk= Received: by 10.38.59.52 with SMTP id h52mr43877rna; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:39:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.12? ([68.187.162.8]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTP id 63sm10251rna.2005.01.28.00.39.22; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:39:22 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <196F548E-7108-11D9-8513-000A95BB7150@ahze.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 03:39:18 -0500 To: Ted Mittelstaedt , kris@freebsd.org X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail 1.0.2 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) From: Michael Johnson cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Kent Stewart Subject: Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 08:39:23 -0000 -----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-----