Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 21:32:36 +0200 From: Radek Kozlowski <radek@raadradd.com> To: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> Cc: FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Anyone used portindex? Message-ID: <20040720193236.GC75904@werd> In-Reply-To: <200407201105.04407.krinklyfig@spymac.com> References: <200407201105.04407.krinklyfig@spymac.com>
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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
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