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Date:      Thu, 27 Jan 2005 23:18:47 -0800
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Subject:   Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports
Message-ID:  <200501272318.47517.kstewart@owt.com>
In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNOECKFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
References:  <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNOECKFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>

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On Thursday 27 January 2005 11:00 pm, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>   Has anyone seen this before, I just installed 4.11 and in
> /usr/ports typed make search key="ghostscript" and the machine went
> away for a couple hours to generate an INDEX file.  (this is a P75,
> unfortunately)
>
>   Has anyone else noticed the INDEX file is missing in the
> 4.11-RELEASE ports directory?
>

If you cvsup ports-all, INDEX[-56] is deleted. You want to 
cd /usr/ports
make fetchindex

The fetch of a compressed file is much faster than generating it :).

Kent

-- 
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html



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