Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 17:27:33 -0500 From: Scott Robbins <scottro@nyc.rr.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portsnap support on CURRENT Message-ID: <20060210222733.GA70832@mail.scottro.net> In-Reply-To: <1139607813.23382.20.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org> References: <1139607813.23382.20.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 04:43:33PM -0500, Paul Mather wrote: > I've noticed lately a lot of "succeeds port" messages when I run > portversion (from the portupgrade port) to list which of my packages are > out of date and require updating. These messages are incorrect (i.e., > the "port has" version identified by portversion is older than that in > the actual port Makefile), and I don't get incorrect identifications > from either pkg_version or portmanager. (I also don't get this problem > on a RELENG_6 system I have, either.) > > After a little looking, I discovered that my /usr/ports/INDEX-7 file is > not being updated. Investigation of the portsnap source reveals that it > only actually generates INDEX, INDEX-5, and INDEX-6 from portsnap > updates in extract_indices(); it doesn't generate INDEX-7. > > So, is /usr/sbin/portsnap currently supported on CURRENT? It appears to > keep /usr/ports up to date, just not the index file. For now, I've > switched to using sysutils/portmanager from ports for upgrading ports, > but I'm not entirely happy with that for a variety of reasons. Plus, > some /usr/ports/UPDATING instructions advocate using portupgrade > explicitly, so it would be nice to have portupgrade working fully. :-) > I had the same problem (on CURRENT, with 6.x working perfectly.) Like you I tracked it down to the INDEX file not being updated. My temporary hack is to simply rn pkgdb -Fu (hrm, who thought of those flags?) :) before running portversion. - -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Drusilla: Your face is a poem. I can read it. Xander: It doesn't say 'spare me' by any chance? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD7RNV+lTVdes0Z9YRAut+AJ9DHw6gITkhvEFcaMIuQwBUmSiYzACghlWG ya2mwldzlGpP0Eq2XUxQXVU= =9/Uh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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