Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 03:51:32 -0500 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Jeffrey Williams <jeff@sailorfej.net> Subject: Re: error in "make index" Message-ID: <41CBD894.20806@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20041224084042.GA36458@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0412240051370.29316-100000@pancho> <41CBD5A0.9050006@FreeBSD.org> <20041224084042.GA36458@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 03:38:56AM -0500, Adam Weinberger wrote:
>
>>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'.
>
>
> The corresponding change was committed today.
It seems that it only does so if you run 'portsdb -F' manually yourself.
If you remove INDEX* and run 'portupgrade -a', it still attempts to
build INDEX the 'make index' way.
>>And frankly, I'd support having 'make fetchindex' run automatically by
>>the ports build system if the ${PORTS_INDEX} file doesn't exist.
>
> That sounds like a good idea.
Should I open a PR for it?
# Adam
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