From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 24 06:01:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7872016A4CE for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 06:01:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out008.verizon.net (out008pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB8C743D1D for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 06:01:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm@inbox.lv) Received: from ringworm.mechee.com ([4.26.84.7]) by out008.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20041224060129.BSMU17379.out008.verizon.net@ringworm.mechee.com> for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 00:01:29 -0600 Received: by ringworm.mechee.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 769682CE740; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 21:58:43 -0800 (PST) From: "Michael C. Shultz" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 21:58:42 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <200412232121.37541.ringworm@inbox.lv> <20041223214205.H17211@fez.hyperreal.org> In-Reply-To: <20041223214205.H17211@fez.hyperreal.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200412232158.42734.ringworm@inbox.lv> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out008.verizon.net from [4.26.84.7] at Fri, 24 Dec 2004 00:01:28 -0600 Subject: Re: portsdb and portupgrade causes errors X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 06:01:30 -0000 On Thursday 23 December 2004 09:42 pm, Brian Behlendorf wrote: > On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > On Thursday 23 December 2004 08:50 pm, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > >> These days it is best to run make fetch index from /usr/ports > >> after you've run cvsup rather than build INDEX-5 for yourself. > >> > >> -Mike > > > > correction: > > > > run make fetchindex not make fetch index from /usr/ports > > Out of curiosity, why isn't the index included in the update > normally? > > Brian Beats me, I once suggested making a port of the INDEX files so they could be updated automatically, but the "powers that be" chose this solution instead. What is really annoying is everytime you run make update the INDEX files get wacked and adding ports/INDEX* to the refuse file no longer works :( -Mike