Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 02:24:32 -0700 (PDT) From: "Chris H" <bsd-lists@1command.com> To: "Matthew Seaman" <matthew@freebsd.org> Cc: bsd-lists@1command.com, svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where's the docs for FreeBSD maintenance with Subversion? Message-ID: <08bc031c63ab5d08a8e6ec1b87f65a26.authenticated@ultimatedns.net> In-Reply-To: <51D5355B.7060800@freebsd.org> References: <b8cefc405bcd2f7248f4c260a9148296.authenticated@ultimatedns.net> <51D5355B.7060800@freebsd.org>
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> On 04/07/2013 09:00, Chris H wrote: >> 1) what to do with my current INDEX-8 && INDEX-8.db files? > > When you grab the latest ports via SVN, your INDEX files will be quite > out of date. Delete them, and grab an up to date version by 'make > fetchindex' (or by building your own) IIRC INDEX-8.db is something > generated by portupgrade automatically from INDEX-8. Yep -- actually as a product of portupgrade(1). It's actually portsdb(1) that creates it. > >> 2) what of the "distfiles" directory > > Save this. Move it aside when you do your initial SVN checkout, and > then copy the content back into place under /usr/ports/distfiles > It won't interfere with subsequent SVN updates. Thank you Matthew, that clears it all up for me. :) --chris > > Cheers, > > Matthew > _______________________________________________ > svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-stable-8 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-stable-8-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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