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Date:      Tue, 27 Jan 2004 07:16:28 -0500
From:      "Lee Dilkie" <lee@dilkie.com>
To:        "'Sean Chittenden'" <sean@chittenden.org>, <mdunham@kestrelworks.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Kopete 7.3
Message-ID:  <004401c3e4cf$647d91e0$c10133ce@dilkie.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031020032632.GA40096@perrin.nxad.com>

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> This is because your INDEX file is stale (it's almost always stale,
> actually), but INDEX gets updated periodically (once every two-three
> weeks or so) to combat this problem.  Use `portsdb -Uu` to update your
> index... it takes about 15-20min of really hard disk grinding (I do it
> about nightly on a nice SCSI machine and then scp the resulting INDEX
> to a farm of boxen).
>
> -sc
>
> --
> Sean Chittenden


I always do a "make index" in the /usr/ports directory. Have I been doing
it wrong?

-lee




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