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Date:      Sun, 03 Aug 2014 15:34:21 -0400
From:      Naram Qashat <cyberbotx@cyberbotx.com>
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>,  freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Does pkg automatically download INDEX?
Message-ID:  <53DE8EBD.4090303@cyberbotx.com>
In-Reply-To: <53DE8623.1090208@infracaninophile.co.uk>
References:  <53DE7266.5000606@cyberbotx.com> <53DE8623.1090208@infracaninophile.co.uk>

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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



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