Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:17:27 +0000 From: Paul Macdonald <paul@ifdnrg.com> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsd 6 index file Message-ID: <4D110B57.4000401@ifdnrg.com> In-Reply-To: <B84555D9-B881-4208-8047-9E3E66E76E76@mac.com> References: <4D10F79D.7080100@ifdnrg.com> <B84555D9-B881-4208-8047-9E3E66E76E76@mac.com>
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On 21/12/2010 19:29, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Dec 21, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Paul Macdonald wrote: >> I have a couple of older boxes on freebsd 6 that are reporting ports succeeding index, even after a fresh index has been downloaded. >> e.g >> portupgrade-2.4.8_1,2> succeeds index (index has 2.4.8,2) >> spamass-milter-0.3.1_11> succeeds index (index has 0.3.1_10) > FreeBSD-6 is past it's end of life, and the ports tree no longer maintains a current index file for 6.x. You can do a "make index" yourself, but there are no guarantees that this will continue to work as time passes. Time to upgrade to FreeBSD 7 or 8... > > Regards, yup, yup, i know! these boxes are scheduled for upgrades once i get to the data center (freebsd-update works great, but it only takes one typo in the merged config files for a reboot to fail) INDEX-6 matched ports fine up till today however, which is why i posted. maybe today was the 'day'.
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