Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:29:21 -0800 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Paul Macdonald <paul@ifdnrg.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsd 6 index file Message-ID: <B84555D9-B881-4208-8047-9E3E66E76E76@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <4D10F79D.7080100@ifdnrg.com> References: <4D10F79D.7080100@ifdnrg.com>
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On Dec 21, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Paul Macdonald wrote: > I have a couple of older boxes on freebsd 6 that are reporting ports succeeding index, even after a fresh index has been downloaded. > e.g > portupgrade-2.4.8_1,2 > succeeds index (index has 2.4.8,2) > spamass-milter-0.3.1_11 > succeeds index (index has 0.3.1_10) FreeBSD-6 is past it's end of life, and the ports tree no longer maintains a current index file for 6.x. You can do a "make index" yourself, but there are no guarantees that this will continue to work as time passes. Time to upgrade to FreeBSD 7 or 8... Regards, -- -Chuck
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