From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 19 14:49:23 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 317DB16A4B3 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 14:49:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h76n3fls24o1048.bredband.comhem.se [213.67.148.76]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B076F43FAF for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 14:49:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: (qmail 57147 invoked by uid 1001); 19 Oct 2003 21:49:19 -0000 Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 23:49:18 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Kent Stewart Message-ID: <20031019214918.GA57122@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Kent Stewart , Lowell Gilbert , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20031017183307.401450af.adam.mclaurin@gmx.net> <44k77148ug.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20031019172132.GA47552@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <200310191242.13604.kstewart@owt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200310191242.13604.kstewart@owt.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why build INDEX ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 21:49:23 -0000 On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 12:42:13PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Sunday 19 October 2003 10:21 am, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 10:09:59AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > Adam McLaurin writes: > > > > That doesn't mean you have to rebuild your own INDEX file, because > > > you can (and will, unless you specifically refuse it) download it > > > along with the rest of the ports collection. Of course, those are > > > only built every few weeks, so they generally won't be completely > > > up-to-date either. > > > > There is almost never any need to rebuild INDEX. > > I think sysinstall might use it to get information on available > > packages, but I am not sure. Other than that it is not really > > needed. > > 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. > > When I checked the cvsweb.cgi, I see INDEX is currently 2 weeks old and > before INDEX-5 was updated recently, it was 8 weeks old. Yes, there are usually several weeks between updates of INDEX. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se