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Bruce A. Mah <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> types:
> If memory serves me right, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > Note that pkg_version uses the INDEX file, which is in the repository
> > but not get up to date. For best results, you need to do a "make
> > index" in /usr/ports.
> Quick correction here...pkg_version (for 4.3-RELEASE and newer) will use
> information encoded in each port/package to help find the current
> version of each port from the port's Makefile.  It only falls back to
> the (slightly out-of-date) INDEX file if this fails.  You generally
> don't need to do "make index" for pkg_version.

I hadn't realized that pkg_version had been updated. That's cool.

Can we get "make search" to use it?

	<mike (heading off to install portupgrade...)
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