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Date:      Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:13:01 +0100
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: broken INDEX
Message-ID:  <20090419201301.4431770b@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <49EAF467.4020407@bsdforen.de>
References:  <49EAEF3C.6090409@bsdforen.de> <49EAF467.4020407@bsdforen.de>

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On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:52:39 +0200
Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> wrote:


> This is not the first time this has happened and I'm wondering, is
> this a bug in Tinderbox? Shouldn't packages listed in the INDEX
> always be available?
> ...
> So I think packages should really only be listed in the INDEX if
> they are available and only deleted AFTER they have been removed
> from the INDEX.


The INDEX file is information about the current ports tree, and it has
to match the current tree. It's used by portupgrade, pkg_version,
portversion, and a few minor make targets to speed things up. 

INDEX has little to do with package files, not all packages listed in
INDEX are even packaged.



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