Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 12:07:29 +0100 From: Gunnar Flygt <gunnar.flygt@sr.se> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Strange things with CVS and ports Message-ID: <20030202110729.GA86812@sr.se> In-Reply-To: <200302020239.11462.kstewart@owt.com> References: <20030202103229.GA86117@sr.se> <200302020239.11462.kstewart@owt.com>
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On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 02:39:11AM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: > 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. Thanks for the answer, but the problem has never been so obvious as it has the latest week, when I got the "Installed port succeeds the port version" or whatever it says. I'll use the pkgdb -uU instead of makeindex then. > > Kent > > > > > Please cc me, I'm not on questions > > -- > Kent Stewart > Richland, WA > > http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html -- Gunnar Flygt, Postmaster SR To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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