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Date:      Sun, 16 Jan 2005 15:53:39 +0200
From:      Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com>
To:        Clint Olsen <clint@0lsen.net>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: Portversion claims a newer port is available but it ain't so
Message-ID:  <20050116155339.7a9c29c0@it.buh.tecnik93.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050116074724.GA72796@0lsen.net>
References:  <20050116013239.GA84616@0lsen.net> <20050116041659.GA62683@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050116074724.GA72796@0lsen.net>

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On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 23:47:24 -0800
Clint Olsen <clint@0lsen.net> wrote:

> On Jan 15, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > But the ports tree *does* have 1.1.0_4.  You probably did 'make
> > fetchindex', which works against the latest ports tree.  cvsup and you'll
> > get the update.
> 
> Actually, I didn't do a make fetchindex, but it seems as if portversion
> does this at times.  At any rate, you were right.  Running cvsup pulls down
> the latest port.

It does if you dont have the index file (e.g. it was deleted by cvsup).

I find useful to use sysutils/p5-FreeBSD-Portindex after cvsuping to
have my index up-to-date and sync with local installed ports


-- 
IOnut
Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"




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