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Date:      Tue, 07 Sep 2004 19:38:07 +0200
From:      Nico Meijer <nico.meijer@zonnet.nl>
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [another "me too"] Re: portindex/portindexdb
Message-ID:  <413DF1FF.9020104@zonnet.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20040907062449.GA41144@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Hi Matthew,

> Another workaround is simply to set:
> 
>     PORTS_DBDRIVER=bdb1_hash
> 
> in your environment, and then use portsdb and portupgrade as usual.

May I bluntly - yet politely - ask why you would prefer this workaround 
as opposed to replacing `portsdb -Uu` with `portindex && portindexdb`, 
other than to avoid having to install extra software?

I can imagine a few, but I value your opinion.

Thanks a bunch... Nico



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