From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 20 00:47:11 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37D861065673 for ; Thu, 20 May 2010 00:47:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ari@ish.com.au) Received: from fish.ish.com.au (eth5921.nsw.adsl.internode.on.net [59.167.240.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E9AC8FC16 for ; Thu, 20 May 2010 00:47:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ip-152.ish.com.au ([203.29.62.152]:65489) by fish.ish.com.au with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OEtul-0007ZP-0Q; Thu, 20 May 2010 10:47:07 +1000 Message-ID: <4BF4868A.8080305@ish.com.au> Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 10:47:06 +1000 From: Aristedes Maniatis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton References: <4BDFF264.9090608@ish.com.au> <4BE0434D.5070801@FreeBSD.org> <4BF0B985.7020707@ish.com.au> <4BF0D8DE.6020909@FreeBSD.org> <4BF0DEAC.2040605@ish.com.au> <4BF0DF8B.6040505@FreeBSD.org> <4BF4800E.1010509@ish.com.au> <4BF483C9.403@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4BF483C9.403@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jurgen Weber , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmaster cannot find package X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 00:47:11 -0000 On 20/05/10 10:35 AM, Doug Barton wrote: > On 05/19/10 17:19, Jurgen Weber wrote: >> Dough >> >> Ah, I see. That looks to have worked correctly. > > Excellent! Hi Doug Can I suggest a note in the man page about this. For many users this is likely the first time they would hit this discrepancy with the INDEX files and portsnap. Your index-only feature is certainly the first time we hit this issue. Until now we never knew that INDEX was built conditionally around the settings in make.conf, and we've been using FreeBSD ports for about 15 years now. --index-only do not try to use /usr/ports. For updating ports when no /usr/ports directory is present the -PP|--packages-only option is required. See the ENVIRONMENT section below for additional requirements. When using this feature with any options that affect port building in make.conf, make sure you build your INDEX files with 'make index' rather than using the portsnap supplied INDEX files. Thanks for all your great work on the portmaster tool. Ari -- --------------------------> Aristedes Maniatis ish http://www.ish.com.au Level 1, 30 Wilson Street Newtown 2042 Australia phone +61 2 9550 5001 fax +61 2 9550 4001 GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A