From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 14 10:44:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99E7D37B401 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 10:44:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 94A7043F85 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 10:44:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1050774277.76f83b@mired.org) Received: (qmail 55498 invoked from network); 14 Apr 2003 17:44:37 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 14 Apr 2003 17:44:37 -0000 Received: by guru.mired.org (tmda-inject, from uid 100); Mon, 14 Apr 2003 12:44:37 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16026.62341.42973.753668@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 12:44:37 -0500 To: dick hoogendijk In-Reply-To: <20030414170827.GA32192@lothlorien.nagual.st> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030414130808.00a457a0@127.0.0.1> <5.2.0.9.0.20030414153955.00a3f4c0@127.0.0.1> <200304140953.06389.kstewart@owt.com> <20030414170827.GA32192@lothlorien.nagual.st> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.73 (Jet Pilot) cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Error in fontconfig X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 17:44:39 -0000 In <20030414170827.GA32192@lothlorien.nagual.st>, dick hoogendijk typed: > On 14 Apr Kent Stewart wrote: > > If you aren't rebuilding your INDEX* files after you cvsup, you are > > using an INDEX dated 29 Mar. > Is it really needed to rebuild INDEX after every cvsup of the ports? > Someone suggested one time: > # make index > # pkgdb -F > # portsdb -u I think the "pkgdb -F" isn't needed. The database of installed packages isn't really affected that much by cvsupping ports. About the only thing that might break is that a port may have been renamed or obsoleted, so that the db no longer has a valid origin. That won't make any difference until you try and upgrade that port, at which point you'll be told to run "pkgdb -F". The pkgdb man page says run it "periodically". That could be when you do a ports cvsup. Personally, I run it when one of the portupgrade tools says it's broken and I need to run it. > This all takes a long time. "Make index" takes 'ages' > I guess I have to live with that if it means you're errorfree, but > still, is it? Yes, it is. Note that "portsdb -U" will do the equivalent of "make index" for you. So all you have to do is one "portsdb -uU" after cvsupping the ports. Which is exactly what the portsdb man page recommends doing. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.