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Date:      Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:09:06 +0300
From:      Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Marshall <john.marshall@riverwillow.com.au>
Cc:        Morgan Wesstr_m <freebsd-ports@pp.dyndns.biz>, "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Trying to "make index" in a crontab job
Message-ID:  <20080911210906.569c0019@it.buh.tecnik93.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080911014211.GB23787@rwpc12.mby.riverwillow.net.au>
References:  <48C83139.7080303@pp.dyndns.biz> <20080911014211.GB23787@rwpc12.mby.riverwillow.net.au>

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On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:42:11 +1000
John Marshall <john.marshall@riverwillow.com.au> wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, 22:42 +0200, Morgan Wesstr?m wrote:
> > Is there a preferred way to update the=20
> > ports source tree and create the index through crontab?
>=20
> If your system is configured to use csup (or cvsup) to update your
> ports tree to the latest (ports-all tag=3D.), then you can fetch a
> pre-built index with "make fetchindex".
>=20
> portsnap(8) updates the INDEX as well as the ports tree by default and
> might be a better solution for you.

Just that, in both cases one gets the default INDEX, as build for
default OPTIONS/KNOBS/... for all ports, hence it probably differs from
the one you'll generate locally.

As a suggestion for the OP:
ports-mgmt/p5-FreeBSD-Portindex


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