From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 20 19:32:31 2004 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 02F3716A4CE for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 19:32:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ddardaar.mine.nu (bxf113.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [83.29.255.113]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A32C843D39 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 19:32:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from radek@raadradd.com) Received: by ddardaar.mine.nu (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8E555A548; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 21:32:36 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 21:32:36 +0200 From: Radek Kozlowski To: Joshua Tinnin Message-ID: <20040720193236.GC75904@werd> References: <200407201105.04407.krinklyfig@spymac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200407201105.04407.krinklyfig@spymac.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Anyone used portindex? 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: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 19:32:31 -0000 On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 11:05:04AM -0700, Joshua Tinnin wrote: > I came across portindex today, and I was wondering if anyone had experience > using it. It appeals to me because of the description (link below), but I'd > like to know if there are notable problems or conflicts. > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/sysutils/portindex/pkg-descr The recent versions work fine for me so instead of using make index/portsdb -U, I switched to portindex. The only risk you take is a possible (but not very likely to happen, I suppose) corrupted INDEX file, which you can always recreate using make index/portsdb -U or fetch from the freebsd.org site using make fetchindex, so I think you can safely try it. -Radek