From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 24 07:22:54 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 346D016A4CE for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 07:22:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 433FD43D4C for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 07:22:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iBO7KiHs061945; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:50:45 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:50:44 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 References: <200412232257.09991.ringworm@inbox.lv> In-Reply-To: <200412232257.09991.ringworm@inbox.lv> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1119428.iOg6pH8pT8"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200412241750.44730.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -5.7 () IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_01_02,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: "Michael C. Shultz" 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 07:22:54 -0000 --nextPart1119428.iOg6pH8pT8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:27, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > Because the way we used to do it required tremendous churn in the > > CVS repository. And it was _still_ out of date. > > We in user land don't see that end of things :) Why does INDEX have to > go into the CVS repository anyways? Guess that is why you all changed > things around? INDEX has to go into CVS if you want cvsup to see it. > It's really not a bother, and with DSL it takes like 30 seconds to > download it, but as I'm sure you can see many new users are getting > tripped up by the change because now there is this extra make > fetchindex step. Yes, I help quite a number of newbies with this issue.. 'make index' looks= =20 like it's DoS'ing your PC :) > I really think making the INDEX files into a port would be the best > solution because every one understands ports and it could easily be > done without creating churn on the CVS repository, just don't > use a distinfo file and then you could update the source tarball at will > without bothering anybody. It's a bit hard to portupgrade a piece of the ports framework. I think a simple announcment saying the recommended solution is changing yo= ur=20 port cvsup script to (say).. cvsup -h .. cd /usr/ports && make fetchindex =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1119428.iOg6pH8pT8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBy8NM5ZPcIHs/zowRAmffAKCrw6n+rZj1MvpqGz78dpzDbWO+nQCfQHML iDUqrOsmFuZo+1F/r72TCys= =snfx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1119428.iOg6pH8pT8--