Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:40:49 -0800 From: Freddie Cash <fcash@ocis.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portsnap support on CURRENT Message-ID: <200602101440.50440.fcash@ocis.net> In-Reply-To: <1139607813.23382.20.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org> References: <1139607813.23382.20.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org>
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On Friday 10 February 2006 01:43 pm, Paul Mather wrote: > I've noticed lately a lot of "succeeds port" messages when I run > portversion (from the portupgrade port) to list which of my packages > are out of date and require updating. These messages are incorrect > (i.e., the "port has" version identified by portversion is older than > that in the actual port Makefile), and I don't get incorrect > identifications from either pkg_version or portmanager. (I also don't > get this problem on a RELENG_6 system I have, either.) > After a little looking, I discovered that my /usr/ports/INDEX-7 file is > not being updated. Investigation of the portsnap source reveals that > it only actually generates INDEX, INDEX-5, and INDEX-6 from portsnap > updates in extract_indices(); it doesn't generate INDEX-7. Workarounds until portsnap does it again, in order of length of time to generate INDEX-7: cd /usr/ports ; make fetchindex cd usr/ports ; make index pkgdb -U -- Freddie Cash fcash@ocis.net
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