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Date:      Fri, 24 Feb 2006 22:48:52 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: index update
Message-ID:  <20060225034852.GA41579@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060225023315.GX18867@tigger.digitaltorque.ca>
References:  <20060225023315.GX18867@tigger.digitaltorque.ca>

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On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 09:33:15PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> Hey people,
>=20
> Reading the manpage for portsdb, and looking at some examples where this =
is
> run
>=20
> /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu
>=20
> I'm wondering what the difference between this and
>=20
> cd /usr/ports && make index
>=20
> is. Don't they both rebuild the index?

Yes (in fact the former calls the latter), but the former also
rebuilds the INDEX.db used by portupgrade and friends.

Kris


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