Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 03:38:56 -0500 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: Jeffrey Williams <jeff@sailorfej.net> Subject: Re: error in "make index" Message-ID: <41CBD5A0.9050006@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0412240051370.29316-100000@pancho> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0412240051370.29316-100000@pancho>
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Mark Linimon wrote:
> Sigh. Already fixed. A quick check of tonight's mailing list would
> have confirmed that this has already been reported. Please re-cvsup
> and try again.
>
> I'm beginning to wonder if when we took INDEX out of the repository
> we should have disabled the index target, or aliased it to the
> fetchindex one.
>
> I would really advocate that most people move to "make fetchindex"
> and only use "make index" if there is some pressing reason (local
> non-standard ports installations, unusual and well-understood
> make.conf options).
I've already suggested this to knu, but it bears repeating here: I'd
really really really strongly advocate portupgrade running 'make
fetchindex' instead of 'make index'.
And frankly, I'd support having 'make fetchindex' run automatically by
the ports build system if the ${PORTS_INDEX} file doesn't exist.
# Adam
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