Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 00:40:42 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Jeffrey Williams <jeff@sailorfej.net> Subject: Re: error in "make index" Message-ID: <20041224084042.GA36458@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <41CBD5A0.9050006@FreeBSD.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0412240051370.29316-100000@pancho> <41CBD5A0.9050006@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 03:38:56AM -0500, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> Mark Linimon wrote:
> >Sigh. Already fixed. A quick check of tonight's mailing list would
> >have confirmed that this has already been reported. Please re-cvsup
> >and try again.
> >
> >I'm beginning to wonder if when we took INDEX out of the repository
> >we should have disabled the index target, or aliased it to the
> >fetchindex one.
> >
> >I would really advocate that most people move to "make fetchindex"
> >and only use "make index" if there is some pressing reason (local
> >non-standard ports installations, unusual and well-understood
> >make.conf options).
>=20
> I've already suggested this to knu, but it bears repeating here: I'd=20
> really really really strongly advocate portupgrade running 'make=20
> fetchindex' instead of 'make index'.
The corresponding change was committed today.
> And frankly, I'd support having 'make fetchindex' run automatically by=20
> the ports build system if the ${PORTS_INDEX} file doesn't exist.
That sounds like a good idea.
Kris
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