Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 21:01:58 -0400 From: Naram Qashat <cyberbotx@cyberbotx.com> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Does pkg automatically download INDEX? Message-ID: <53E02D06.8000105@cyberbotx.com> In-Reply-To: <20140804214127.000030c9@Leidinger.net> References: <53DE7266.5000606@cyberbotx.com> <53DE8623.1090208@infracaninophile.co.uk> <53DE8EBD.4090303@cyberbotx.com> <53DE934C.101@FreeBSD.org> <53DE9B38.2000805@cyberbotx.com> <20140804214127.000030c9@Leidinger.net>
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On 08/04/14 15:41, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On Sun, 03 Aug 2014 16:27:36 -0400 > Naram Qashat <cyberbotx@cyberbotx.com> wrote: > >> On 08/03/14 15:53, Matthew Seaman wrote: >>> On 03/08/2014 20:34, Naram Qashat wrote: >>>> Well, I've been using the command line arguments of "-voL '='", and >>>> looking at the man page for pkg-version, as far as I can tell, it >>>> shouldn't be downloading INDEX, since I do have INDEX-9 on my >>>> system. >>> >>> pkg(8) doesn't download or attempt to build an INDEX at all. It >>> can use one if one happens to be already available, but not >>> otherwise. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Matthew >> >> I'm at a bit of a loss, then. While I can't say for sure if pkg is >> doing something unintended, there seems to be something on my system >> that is downloading INDEX without my knowledge. >> >> My usual way of updating my INDEX is using p5-FreeBSD-Portindex to >> generate the INDEX file, and using that INDEX to update the files >> that portupgrade uses. I run that manually, so I have nothing that >> would do that for me automatically, to my knowledge. > > How do you update the ports tree, with portsnap or with svn? Portnap > also updates the index. > > Bye, > Alexander. I update via svn, so that isn't getting the INDEX updates. Thanks, Naram Qashat
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