Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 23:33:47 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports Message-ID: <200501272333.48111.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNKECLFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNKECLFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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On Thursday 27 January 2005 11:30 pm, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Kent > > Stewart Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:19 PM > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt > > Subject: Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports > > > > 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 > > :). > > Even faster would have been for it to be on the same CDROM that the > rest of the ports directories were copied from. > You would have to go to the cvsweb.cgi attic to find out how many months it has been removed from ports. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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