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From: Kurt Jaeger <pi@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Ports INDEX
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Hi!

> I just switched from using 'portsnap' to 'git'. I removed everything in
> the directory, then used 'git' to build it. That worked fine. I had to
> manually recreate the 'distfiles' directory, but I expected to have to
> do that.
> 
> Now, if I run a 'make search' in the directory, I receive an error
> message that it needs the INDEX file. I ran "make index" and that
> seems to work alright. My question is, is that the best way to handle
> this?

There's a make target fetchindex.

So

cd /usr/ports
make fetchindex

fetches the index from some repo.

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pi@opsec.eu            +49 171 3101372                    Now what ?