Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 15:36:34 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Ken McGlothlen <mcglk@artlogix.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: outdated ports/INDEX database Message-ID: <3C324802.3070309@owt.com> References: <20020101223338.A2363@paula.panke.de.freebsd.org> <87bsgdy7hy.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com>
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Ken McGlothlen wrote: > | Any change for an update of ports/INDEX database? > > Out of curiosity, why isn't the INDEX database a Makefile target these days? > > Seriously. With the new ports management system, I never rely on INDEX anymore > to figure out what's out of date. (I used to; I had a script which would check > to see if INDEX had been updated, and diff the new version with the old version > with a Perl script to figure out version changes. Now? I use a much shorter > Perl script which filters the output from "portupgrade -n '*'".) So why isn't > there a "portindex" program or Makefile target that reconstructs the INDEX file > based on the information in the individual ports? > > I wish I wasn't halfway through the Late Project From Hell at this point; I'm > tempted to take a crack at it. Wouldn't be a hard Perl script, I'd think. Have you tried cd /usr/ports make index or portsdb -Uu The ports database maintained by portsdb is better but much slower. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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