From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 3 19:34:24 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 57CE53BA for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2014 19:34:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qmta09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [IPv6:2001:558:fe14:43:76:96:62:96]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0708025FD for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2014 19:34:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta04.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.35]) by qmta09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id aHb11o0030ldTLk59KaNBS; Sun, 03 Aug 2014 19:34:22 +0000 Received: from kirby.cyberbotx.com ([107.5.48.95]) by omta04.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id aKaM1o00s23DSHF01KaNVT; Sun, 03 Aug 2014 19:34:22 +0000 Message-ID: <53DE8EBD.4090303@cyberbotx.com> Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 15:34:21 -0400 From: Naram Qashat User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Seaman , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Does pkg automatically download INDEX? References: <53DE7266.5000606@cyberbotx.com> <53DE8623.1090208@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <53DE8623.1090208@infracaninophile.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=comcast.net; s=q20140121; t=1407094462; bh=KgMWoFrvzp5RlS9bHaMZGtrewB+q6SEECAjAEEBmNts=; h=Received:Received:Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:Subject: Content-Type; b=odrSEUrj3gBwDc1z5rWWEusVlva8OuWQcC6oIMVK/Vc/G4m/w0747dIbSW6Zcb/l5 fkH3apyWhEL8PdWQ/QOtnLabZCwnx8LUbS2H5MJrfgf2J7yFRunKEVDjS0TvJaev8a M3WdNlE7T4/aVb956Wv8Eu+Fi6FlBtOdOkp20nOBpELDdx/Py26874hoZFhPnM/Pjy O8SC7R8Iiw+zYPBwF18BUsPy4MWs7nk1lZnXUjacNkiIoo/oOS8l1n96NIX5M1C7aZ 1P5C03cvTF68CWYWA+LF5p66AKNEFckYSS3wVrDKARebpkjiA4hl3DF1bWd0mtzeMM 8YCtC41B6JK4w== X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 19:34:24 -0000 On 08/03/14 14:57, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 03/08/2014 18:33, Naram Qashat wrote: >> I've been noticing this whenever I do a 'pkg version -v', it shows some >> ports as being different from the INDEX, but when I check the actual >> port, it isn't the same version that 'pkg version' shows. I usually >> rebuild my INDEX manually after doing an svn update, so I'm wondering if >> this is pkg doing something or if I have something else doing it. I am >> running FreeBSD 9.2. > > What 'pkg version' does depends on the command line options you give it > and to the presence or not of the ports INDEX or the ports tree in > general. It's all described in pkg-version(8). > > Cheers, > > Matthew Well, I've been using the command line arguments of "-voL '='", and looking at the man page for pkg-version, as far as I can tell, it shouldn't be downloading INDEX, since I do have INDEX-9 on my system. Thanks, Naram Qashat