Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:57:39 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: INDEX-5 update policy? Message-ID: <20040311015739.GA9566@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200403110004.LAA15855@lightning.itga.com.au> References: <200403110004.LAA15855@lightning.itga.com.au>
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--vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 11:04:02AM +1100, Gregory Bond wrote: > [I'm not subscribed to ports@; please CC me] >=20 > I'm installing my first 5.x box and playing with portupgrade, and I've ju= st=20 > spent half a day working out why "portupgrade -N firefox" wasn't working= =20 > (while it works fine on the 4.x build box). >=20 > Firstly, it took a while to work out the INDEX-5 vs INDEX issue. Then it= was > clear that INDEX-5 is updated in CVS much less frequently than INDEX - by > looking at CVS logs, it seems only at release time. I'm currently runnin= g a > "make index" but this takes hours... >=20 > What is the policy with INDEX-5? =20 Both INDEX and INDEX-5 are updated about once a month, in staggered intervals to avoid spamming cvsup users too much. INDEX-5 was not rebuilt for a while because of the delays in the 5.2/5.2.1 release cycle. More frequently than this causes too much cvsup and CVS repository churn. > Is relying on CVSup for this always going to be futile? Probably. I build INDEX every two hours to test for failures - I'd like to publish these on the website, so people can fetch a more recent copy using e.g. fetch(1) as needed, fbut I haven't been able to get a response from the www machine administrators about enabling account access on that machine. Kris --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAT8eTWry0BWjoQKURAvzEAKCLVlUf9QgPZEXAoJqEyY4HSLOMEgCfa2a1 Js8J9P+KKekfvU6LZJG3DN0= =ajgx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd--
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