From owner-svn-src-stable-8@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 4 09:24:43 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B25E538; Thu, 4 Jul 2013 09:24:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsd-lists@1command.com) Received: from udns.ultimateDNS.NET (ultimatedns.net [209.180.214.225]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A49919FF; Thu, 4 Jul 2013 09:24:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from udns.ultimateDNS.NET (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by udns.ultimateDNS.NET (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id r649Obhj072234; Thu, 4 Jul 2013 02:24:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd-lists@1command.com) Received: (from www@localhost) by udns.ultimateDNS.NET (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id r649OW1o072218; Thu, 4 Jul 2013 02:24:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd-lists@1command.com) Received: from udns.ultimatedns.net ([209.180.214.225]) (UDNSMS authenticated user chrish) by ultimatedns.net with HTTP; Thu, 4 Jul 2013 02:24:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <08bc031c63ab5d08a8e6ec1b87f65a26.authenticated@ultimatedns.net> In-Reply-To: <51D5355B.7060800@freebsd.org> References: <51D5355B.7060800@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 02:24:32 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Where's the docs for FreeBSD maintenance with Subversion? From: "Chris H" To: "Matthew Seaman" User-Agent: UDNSMS/2.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: bsd-lists@1command.com, svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for only the 8-stable src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 09:24:43 -0000 > 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 out of date.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" >