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Date:      Sun, 2 Feb 2003 02:39:11 -0800
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        Gunnar Flygt <gunnar.flygt@sr.se>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Strange things with CVS and ports
Message-ID:  <200302020239.11462.kstewart@owt.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030202103229.GA86117@sr.se>
References:  <20030202103229.GA86117@sr.se>

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On Sunday 02 February 2003 02:32 am, Gunnar Flygt wrote:
> Since a week or two  the INDEX file in /usr/ports is aways back
> to the status of 30 December last year, after I've fetched the lates
> ports with cvsup. I do a make index in /usr/ports and gets it up
> to date, but when I cvsup again it's back to 30 December.
>
> Gives weird results when using portversion -v  Lots of ports have
> too high revision numbers.

INDEX has never been updated at a frequent rate. You have always needed 
to build the current version after you cvsup ports-all. Right now, 
"make index" produces some strange results and portsdb -uU produces a 
different set of strange results. I use the -uU way to build my INDEX 
and INDEX.db.

Kent

>
> Please cc me, I'm not on questions

-- 
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

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