Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 08:59:36 +0400 (GST) From: Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh@rakhesh.com> To: "Arend P. van der Veen" <apvanderveen@att.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portsdb and cvsup Message-ID: <20070806083111.F74284@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> In-Reply-To: <46B5E0F8.7050405@att.net> References: <46B5E0F8.7050405@att.net>
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On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, Arend P. van der Veen wrote: > The approach that I had been using was: > > /usr/local/bin/cvsup -L 0 /usr/sup/supfile > /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu > > This had worked great until the emacs22 update. Now portsdb crashes due to > the emacs entry in /etc/make.conf. However, I see very little chatter on the > lists about this. I have started to wonder if the bulk of the community may > be updating their ports differently. Upon some limited research I found that > I could use: > > /usr/local/bin/cvsup -L 0 /usr/sup/supfile > /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Fu > > This work fine for me. I can then use tools such as pkg_version, pkg_delete, > portinstall and portupgrade without any problems. > > My open ended question is what does the rest of the community do to update > their ports collection? > I don't run portsdb at all. :) What I figured from the portsdb manpages is that if you don't run it manually then it gets run upon using one of the portupgrade tools. I don't mind the 30s or so delay that causes and so I don't run portsdb manually. During my first few days with FreeBSD, however, I used to run ''portsdb -Fu''. My understanding is that that would fetch the INDEX-6 and update INDEX-6.db (since I am on FreeBSD 6.x) but I don't see why I should do this coz the INDEX files are updated when I update the ports tree anyways! (If I have understood this incorrectly, someone please correct me). I tried ''portsdb -Uu'' just once. To see what it does. Took a long time and so I never tried it again. From the manpage I understand that it creates/ updates the INDEX files by running the ''make index'' command, but the reasoning behind that didn't make sense to me ... So that's my story. Regards, Rakhesh
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