Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 20:34:03 +0100 From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> To: Thomas-Martin Seck <tmseck-lists@netcologne.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: INDEX[-5] files were removed from CVS. Message-ID: <419661AB.1080002@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20041113190901.18618.qmail@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> References: <20041113190901.18618.qmail@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org>
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Thomas-Martin Seck wrote:
> Well, it just tries to protect you against clobbering your working
> index file in case the index build fails.
>
> portsdb calls 'make index' with INDEXFILE set to $PORTSDIR/INDEX.tmp and
> copies this temporary index file over when 'make index' was successful.
Yes, but it doesn't handle INDEXFILE being redefined (for example in make.conf).
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