From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 19 12:42:20 2003 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 657A016A4B3 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:42:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62C5743F3F for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:42:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.11.6p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h9JJgEw05245; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:42:14 -0700 From: Kent Stewart To: Erik Trulsson , Lowell Gilbert Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:42:13 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <20031017183307.401450af.adam.mclaurin@gmx.net> <44k77148ug.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20031019172132.GA47552@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20031019172132.GA47552@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310191242.13604.kstewart@owt.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why build INDEX ? 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: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 19:42:20 -0000 On Sunday 19 October 2003 10:21 am, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 10:09:59AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > Adam McLaurin writes: > > That doesn't mean you have to rebuild your own INDEX file, because > > you can (and will, unless you specifically refuse it) download it > > along with the rest of the ports collection. Of course, those are > > only built every few weeks, so they generally won't be completely > > up-to-date either. > > There is almost never any need to rebuild INDEX. > I think sysinstall might use it to get information on available > packages, but I am not sure. Other than that it is not really > needed. If that was true, why does the man page for portupgrade tell you to do the following o To perform upgrades effectively and correctly, remember to run pkgdb(1) with -F on occasions to fix dependency discrepancies, and run portsdb(1) with -Uu every time you CVSup the ports tree to keep your ports INDEX database up-to-date in sync with the tree. When I checked the cvsweb.cgi, I see INDEX is currently 2 weeks old and before INDEX-5 was updated recently, it was 8 weeks old. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html