Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 00:24:24 -0500 (CDT) From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: Joel Hatton <j.hatton@its.uq.edu.au> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: index generation error Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0504140020460.31104-100000@pancho> In-Reply-To: <425DF4F6.2000708@its.uq.edu.au>
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On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Joel Hatton wrote: > I've had an index generation error for a couple of days. I'm running > the standard supfile for ports, and cvsup'ing from a local mirror. If that's the case, you almost surely want to run 'make fetchindex' which will fetch a copy of /usr/ports/INDEX that will reflect the latest metadata for ports. It is continually updated. Since we went to that technology a few months ago, it obviated the need for most people to build their own copies of INDEX. (Exceptions include people that use non-default site options that change the dependencies, and sites that refuse any port or category.) There is a little bit of cvsup magic that is (or was) necessary to avoid the INDEX file automatically being deleted on updates. Please see /usr/ports/UPDATING for more information about all of this. mcl
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