Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:57:33 -0800 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Portsnap support on CURRENT Message-ID: <43ED529D.8010209@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20060210231101.GA71545@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <1139607813.23382.20.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org> <200602101440.50440.fcash@ocis.net> <20060210231101.GA71545@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Friday 10 February 2006 01:43 pm, Paul Mather wrote: > 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. This is a combination of poor planning on my behalf (I shouldn't have hard-coded the list of INDEX files) and a decision not to do anything about this yet. There is currently a lag time of roughly 1 - 2 hours between a commit to the ports tree and that change being reflected in the latest portsnap snapshot; about 80% of this time is from building the three INDEX files. When I looked into adding INDEX-7 to the list of files to build, it turned out to be identical to INDEX-6 (so far); so having the portsnap buildbox build it would slowed down the builds without really gaining anything. (In addition, FreeBSD 7.x users are a very small fraction of the portsnap users.) Once there is a significant difference between INDEX-6 and INDEX-7, I will start building and distributing INDEX-7 files via portsnap. For now, Kris' advice is good Kris Kennaway wrote: > setenv INDEXFILE INDEX-6 although personally I'd create a symlink instead: # ln -s /usr/ports/INDEX-6 /usr/ports/INDEX-7 Colin Percival
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