Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 20:13:46 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "aaronvan@comcast.net" <aaronvan@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports upgrade question Message-ID: <ef10de9a0606101813j6352edf3yd7bcb6f42d6ea77c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0606101811i44baa485t9cdb5b8e3ffdfce5@mail.gmail.com> References: <061120060055.25234.448B69F4000776B2000062922205886360020E9002019D0E0E@comcast.net> <ef10de9a0606101811i44baa485t9cdb5b8e3ffdfce5@mail.gmail.com>
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On 6/10/06, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> wrote: > On 6/10/06, aaronvan@comcast.net <aaronvan@comcast.net> wrote: > > I'm a newbie running 6.1 stable and I have what may be several simple questions: What exactly is happening when I run "make index && make readmes" after I upgrade my ports tree? Why aren't the indexes and readmes made when we run cvsup ports-supfile? Finally, why does it take so long to make what appear (to me) to be fairly small files? Thanks. > > > > You don't need to run make index... just cd into /usr/ports and type > 'make fetchindex' after every cvsup session. You don't need to run > make readmes too, these are just html pages with all the ports listed > on them... see here for an example: http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ err... that link/example should be something more like this one: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=stuff&stype=all&sektion=all -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/
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