Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 01:45:05 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: jwilliams@courtesymortgage.com, <jwilliams@www.courtesymortgage.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question on cvsuping ports tree Message-ID: <200402010145.05443.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <30350-2200420172747767@M2W076.mail2web.com> References: <30350-2200420172747767@M2W076.mail2web.com>
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On Saturday 31 January 2004 11:27 pm, jwilliams@pop.courtesymortgage.com wrote: > I was reading a article at www.onlamp.com in the FreeBSD section > regarding the use of the portupgrade package. As I was reading the > article, it stated that everytime you cvsup your ports tree, your > /usr/ports/INDEX file should reflect the update with a new time > stamp, showing the last time the ports tree was updated. > > After updating my tree today and checking out the /usr/ports/INDEX > file, it should the incorrect date. It should a date about a week old > actually. > > SO my question is, what is going on? Is the article incorrect in what > it stated? Or is there something else I need to do that I am missing? > > I do appreciate the help and explanation. > Yoiu missed the section on "Updating the Ports Database", which must be done everytime you cvsup ports-all for portupgrade to work properly. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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