Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:02:26 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Stevan Tiefert <stevan_tiefert@yahoo.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Historical question about INDEX-file in /usr/ports Message-ID: <4860FE72.1030503@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200806241536.49891.stevan_tiefert@yahoo.de> References: <200806241536.49891.stevan_tiefert@yahoo.de>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Stevan Tiefert wrote: | Hello list, | | a small question for the expirienced users of FreeBSD: | | At which time the name of "INDEX.db" to "INDEX-?.db" changed? (I suppose | during the creating time of FreeBSD 6) And then it was changed, was the | database format also been changed? FreeBSD 4.x and earlier had just plain /usr/ports/INDEX FreeBSD 5.x and above have /usr/ports/INDEX-N where N is the OS major version. The INDEX.db file is created and used by programs from the portupgrade(1) suite: other ports management applications pretty much make a point of not referring to the INDEX at all. There wasn't a change in the format of the INDEX coincident with the name change -- the distinction is because many of the ports are version number dependent so the content of the INDEX will be different on different system versions. There was a change in the format of the INDEX file some time before 4.11-RELEASE (I think) which added a number of extra columns, but the file format has been constant since then. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. Flat 3 ~ 7 Priory Courtyard PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate ~ Kent, CT11 9PW, UK -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAREDAAYFAkhg/nIACgkQ3jDkPpsZ+VZZtgCdHTreKMTKgnK3QbAm1ql08Ct2 IWoAoKsiR9LklfJwIMDgaRyoFypaTvWi =T6a9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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