Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 22:13:46 -0500 From: Skip Ford <skip.ford@verizon.net> To: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Cc: Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.oberon.net> Subject: Re: HEADSUP: INDEX[-5] files were removed from CVS. Message-ID: <20041114031346.GA667@lucy.pool-70-17-33-17.pskn.east.verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <4196BE10.6060306@gmx.net> References: <20041113101925.GB70256@voodoo.oberon.net> <20041113174948.GD76034@nevermind.kiev.ua> <419655EB.8070506@gmx.net> <m3ekixjnve.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> <4196BE10.6060306@gmx.net>
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Michael Nottebrock wrote: > Setting PORTS_INDEX (in environment or pkgtools.conf) to some other value > than portupgrade's default (PORTSDIR/INDEX) should avoid the constant > rebuilding for portupgrade users, redefining INDEXFILE in make.conf to > something different than INDEX or INDEX-5 should avoid it for > non-portupgrade users. > > Perhaps somebody can verify this so it can go into an UPDATING entry... FWIW, I got tired of waiting for INDEX builds a while ago and started to touch(1) an empty INDEX and INDEX.db after every cvsup of the ports tree. Portupgrade can still upgrade packages and the INDEXes stopped being built so I never went back to figure out why it seemed to work. The db is built if it's older so touching works but I never figured out what tries to build the INDEX itself. It didn't happen everytime IIRC. It could just be a coincidence that it stopped building after I tried to "solve" the problem. The only functionality I missed was the ability to 'portupgrade -N' but that can be worked around easily enough. If somebody with more knowlege of how it all works says I shouldn't do that or it doesn't really work like I think it does, I'll stop. But I haven't had an INDEX for months, and my system seems to work fine. I'm just glad there's going to be some resolution. Serving up old INDEX files didn't make much sense. -- Skip, who doesn't work for Verizon.
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