Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:47:57 +0100 From: Erwin Lansing <erwin@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsd 6 index file Message-ID: <20101222074756.GV27077@droso.net> In-Reply-To: <4D110B57.4000401@ifdnrg.com> References: <4D10F79D.7080100@ifdnrg.com> <B84555D9-B881-4208-8047-9E3E66E76E76@mac.com> <4D110B57.4000401@ifdnrg.com>
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--T/0pnuueUwLxk/67 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 08:17:27PM +0000, Paul Macdonald wrote: > On 21/12/2010 19:29, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > 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 s= ucceeding 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 mainta= ins 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. Ti= me to upgrade to FreeBSD 7 or 8... > > > > Regards, > yup, yup, i know! these boxes are scheduled for upgrades once i get to=20 > the data center (freebsd-update works great, but it only takes one typo= =20 > in the merged config files for a reboot to fail) >=20 > INDEX-6 matched ports fine up till today however, which is why i posted. >=20 > maybe today was the 'day'. >=20 Probably depends on what ports you use, you may not have any installed that were changed since the update of INDEX-6 was stopped. As Chuck mentioned, building INDEX yourself will, probably, still work, but the one downloaded by fetchindex will be outdated. You can also check out the last known working portstree on 6 with the tag RELEASE_6_EOL. Best, -erwin --=20 Erwin Lansing http://droso.org Prediction is very difficult especially about the future erwin@FreeBSD.org --T/0pnuueUwLxk/67 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFNEa0sqy9aWxUlaZARAuE1AJ9bDbbpHA4rxaeX7+f0lel3qfneGwCeO7Rt mop7S4qkmmz7M+N9hqoHLNk= =ZRNM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --T/0pnuueUwLxk/67--
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