Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 23:30:38 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Kent Stewart" <kstewart@owt.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Missing INDEX file in Ports Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNKECLFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <200501272318.47517.kstewart@owt.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Kent Stewart > Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:19 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt > Subject: Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports > > > On Thursday 27 January 2005 11:00 pm, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Has anyone seen this before, I just installed 4.11 and in > > /usr/ports typed make search key="ghostscript" and the machine went > > away for a couple hours to generate an INDEX file. (this is a P75, > > unfortunately) > > > > Has anyone else noticed the INDEX file is missing in the > > 4.11-RELEASE ports directory? > > > > If you cvsup ports-all, INDEX[-56] is deleted. You want to > cd /usr/ports > make fetchindex > > The fetch of a compressed file is much faster than generating it :). > Even faster would have been for it to be on the same CDROM that the rest of the ports directories were copied from. Ted
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