From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 11 01:13:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 5F25816A418 for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2006 01:13:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB32243D49 for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2006 01:13:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id 13so915938nzp for ; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 18:13:47 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=n6Xb06K4c1chh2zlXnNUGaFkVTi3HwlZKTgpH2CxqUo/h2j/fulnmReZOhqaq3CrM+EX5/B31azfdUIHklrfYtcBGeO3kDVyDUzi3dQdbzWEw+xwLce3jDVVtkQY7r8FR2iu8fptmRawdLOVyDLjTxAbGAx8tf4IFOTeWmF6/so= Received: by 10.36.118.11 with SMTP id q11mr6423714nzc; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 18:13:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.104.17 with HTTP; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 18:13:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 20:13:46 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "aaronvan@comcast.net" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <061120060055.25234.448B69F4000776B2000062922205886360020E9002019D0E0E@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports upgrade question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 01:13:52 -0000 On 6/10/06, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 6/10/06, aaronvan@comcast.net wrote: > > I'm a newbie running 6.1 stable and I have what may be several simple questions: What exactly is happening when I run "make index && make readmes" after I upgrade my ports tree? Why aren't the indexes and readmes made when we run cvsup ports-supfile? Finally, why does it take so long to make what appear (to me) to be fairly small files? Thanks. > > > > You don't need to run make index... just cd into /usr/ports and type > 'make fetchindex' after every cvsup session. You don't need to run > make readmes too, these are just html pages with all the ports listed > on them... see here for an example: http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ err... that link/example should be something more like this one: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=stuff&stype=all&sektion=all -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/