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On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:42:11 +1000
John Marshall <john.marshall@riverwillow.com.au> wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, 22:42 +0200, Morgan Wesstr?m wrote:
> > Is there a preferred way to update the=20
> > ports source tree and create the index through crontab?
>=20
> If your system is configured to use csup (or cvsup) to update your
> ports tree to the latest (ports-all tag=3D.), then you can fetch a
> pre-built index with "make fetchindex".
>=20
> portsnap(8) updates the INDEX as well as the ports tree by default and
> might be a better solution for you.

Just that, in both cases one gets the default INDEX, as build for
default OPTIONS/KNOBS/... for all ports, hence it probably differs from
the one you'll generate locally.

As a suggestion for the OP:
ports-mgmt/p5-FreeBSD-Portindex


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