From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Oct 14 21:59:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F5AA37B401 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 21:59:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-88.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CFE543EAC for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 21:59:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C249C66E5E; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 21:59:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 21:59:38 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: "Clark C. Evans" Cc: AlanE , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/ports/INDEX update policy? Message-ID: <20021015045938.GA62784@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20021015045004.GA38128@doublegemini.com> <20021015044705.GA53098@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <20021015045802.GA38168@doublegemini.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FCuugMFkClbJLl1L" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021015045802.GA38168@doublegemini.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 04:58:02AM +0000, Clark C. Evans wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 12:47:05AM -0400, AlanE wrote: > | Just run 'portsdb -U' and sit back and wait an hour. >=20 > Ahh. I did a "make index" and it seems to be chugging > along. This works for me; but I'm curious if it is > the norm for the INDEX in the cvsup to be out-of-date? Yes; if we updated the INDEX with every commit there would be hundreds or sometimes thousands of updates per week. It's regenerated every 2 weeks or so (more or less, depending on whether I forget :); if you need it done more frequently then you can just build your own as already noted. Kris --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9q6C5Wry0BWjoQKURAiOCAJ0UzNNw2jpaBfHca8/7H1iehPTIigCg/shl IiJ/8scE+XLvAbPdDhqvoCk= =/SNR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message