Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:16:04 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why build INDEX ? Message-ID: <20031020091604.GA21577@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20031020073937.GA15500@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20031017183307.401450af.adam.mclaurin@gmx.net> <44k77148ug.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20031019172132.GA47552@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <200310191242.13604.kstewart@owt.com> <20031019214918.GA57122@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <20031020073937.GA15500@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 08:39:37AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 11:49:18PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 12:42:13PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > If that was true, why does the man page for portupgrade tell you to do > > > the following > > > > > > o To perform upgrades effectively and correctly, remember to run > > > pkgdb(1) with -F on occasions to fix dependency discrepancies, > > > and run portsdb(1) with -Uu every time you CVSup the ports tree > > > to keep your ports INDEX database up-to-date in sync with the > > > tree. > > > Ask the people who wrote that manpage. > > The portupgrade port might use INDEX. I don't use portupgrade, so I > > neither know nor care about what it does. > > The utilities in the base system don't need an up-to-date INDEX. > > That's not entirely true. pkg_version(1) won't work without an INDEX > file. Yes, it will. pkg_version will first check against the version of the port in the ports tree. Only if that is not available is INDEX consulted. Read the manpage for pkg_version(1) if you don't believe me. > > In general, INDEX is used by any application that attempts to compare > the version numbers of your installed ports with the version numbers > available in the ports tree. However the INDEX file has no direct > effect on compiling or installing any particular port. s/is used/can be used/ and you are correct. > > If you have some other mechanism for deciding which ports need to be > updated, then you don't need the INDEX file. Like checking the ports tree directly, which is what pkg_version(1) does. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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