Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 21:18:01 GMT From: Enrique Matías Sánchez (Quique) <cronopios@gmail.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/90718: Wrong recommendation in portsdb(1) man page Message-ID: <200512202118.jBKLI1Ip032707@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200512202120.jBKLKA76033455@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 90718
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Wrong recommendation in portsdb(1) man page
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Dec 20 21:20:09 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Enrique Matías Sánchez (Quique)
>Release: 6.0-RELEASE
>Organization:
FDP-es
>Environment:
FreeBSD ananda.ath.cx 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005 root@x64.samsco.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>Description:
The portsdb(1) man page states:
In addition, considering that the INDEX file often gets outdated
because it is updated only once a week or so in the official
ports tree, it is recommended that you run ``portsdb -Uu'' after
every CVSup of the ports tree in order to keep them always
up-to-date and in sync with the ports tree.
However, to my best knowledge, the index file is updated not once a
week, but every few hours, so the -U option of portsdb becomes
unnecesary and costly. Running ``make fetchindex && portsdb -u''
should be enough.
>How-To-Repeat:
man portsdb
>Fix:
Please update the manual page.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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