Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:42:13 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why build INDEX ? Message-ID: <200310191242.13604.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20031019172132.GA47552@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> References: <20031017183307.401450af.adam.mclaurin@gmx.net> <44k77148ug.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20031019172132.GA47552@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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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 <adam.mclaurin@gmx.net> 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
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Kent Stewart
Richland, WA
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