Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:13:01 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: broken INDEX Message-ID: <20090419201301.4431770b@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <49EAF467.4020407@bsdforen.de> References: <49EAEF3C.6090409@bsdforen.de> <49EAF467.4020407@bsdforen.de>
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On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:52:39 +0200 Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> wrote: > This is not the first time this has happened and I'm wondering, is > this a bug in Tinderbox? Shouldn't packages listed in the INDEX > always be available? > ... > So I think packages should really only be listed in the INDEX if > they are available and only deleted AFTER they have been removed > from the INDEX. The INDEX file is information about the current ports tree, and it has to match the current tree. It's used by portupgrade, pkg_version, portversion, and a few minor make targets to speed things up. INDEX has little to do with package files, not all packages listed in INDEX are even packaged.
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