Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 07:32:15 -0400 From: "Arend P. van der Veen" <apvanderveen@att.net> To: Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh@rakhesh.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portsdb and cvsup Message-ID: <46B706BF.40000@att.net> In-Reply-To: <20070806083111.F74284@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> References: <46B5E0F8.7050405@att.net> <20070806083111.F74284@obelix.home.rakhesh.com>
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Thanks for your story. The only reason we used -U was that we were not sure what they meant got special macros. The man page for portsdb status that you only use -U if you have special macros in /etc/make.conf. All we have in there is version information so I think that does not apply to use. Thanks again, Arend Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > > On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, Arend P. van der Veen wrote: > >> The approach that I had been using was: >> >> /usr/local/bin/cvsup -L 0 /usr/sup/supfile >> /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu >> >> This had worked great until the emacs22 update. Now portsdb crashes >> due to the emacs entry in /etc/make.conf. However, I see very little >> chatter on the lists about this. I have started to wonder if the bulk >> of the community may be updating their ports differently. Upon some >> limited research I found that I could use: >> >> /usr/local/bin/cvsup -L 0 /usr/sup/supfile >> /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Fu >> >> This work fine for me. I can then use tools such as pkg_version, >> pkg_delete, portinstall and portupgrade without any problems. >> >> My open ended question is what does the rest of the community do to >> update their ports collection? >> > > I don't run portsdb at all. :) > > What I figured from the portsdb manpages is that if you don't run it > manually then it gets run upon using one of the portupgrade tools. I > don't mind the 30s or so delay that causes and so I don't run portsdb > manually. > > During my first few days with FreeBSD, however, I used to run ''portsdb > -Fu''. My understanding is that that would fetch the INDEX-6 and update > INDEX-6.db (since I am on FreeBSD 6.x) but I don't see why I should do > this coz the INDEX files are updated when I update the ports tree > anyways! (If I have understood this incorrectly, someone please correct > me). > > I tried ''portsdb -Uu'' just once. To see what it does. Took a long time > and so I never tried it again. From the manpage I understand that it > creates/ updates the INDEX files by running the ''make index'' command, > but the reasoning behind that didn't make sense to me ... > > So that's my story. > > Regards, > Rakhesh >
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