From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 10 17:57:41 2004 Return-Path: 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 6D87A16A4CE for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:57:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (mta7.pltn13.pbi.net [64.164.98.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61A0A43D3F for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:57:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (32a1fd1f655ef0234c4f2d8091d995c5@adsl-67-119-53-203.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [67.119.53.203])i2B1veTj025086; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:57:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A257053AB2; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:57:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:57:39 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Gregory Bond Message-ID: <20040311015739.GA9566@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200403110004.LAA15855@lightning.itga.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200403110004.LAA15855@lightning.itga.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: INDEX-5 update policy? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 01:57:41 -0000 --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--