Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 23:49:18 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why build INDEX ? Message-ID: <20031019214918.GA57122@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <200310191242.13604.kstewart@owt.com> References: <20031017183307.401450af.adam.mclaurin@gmx.net> <44k77148ug.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20031019172132.GA47552@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <200310191242.13604.kstewart@owt.com>
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On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 12:42:13PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Sunday 19 October 2003 10:21 am, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 10:09:59AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > Adam McLaurin <adam.mclaurin@gmx.net> writes: > > > > That doesn't mean you have to rebuild your own INDEX file, because > > > you can (and will, unless you specifically refuse it) download it > > > along with the rest of the ports collection. Of course, those are > > > only built every few weeks, so they generally won't be completely > > > up-to-date either. > > > > There is almost never any need to rebuild INDEX. > > I think sysinstall might use it to get information on available > > packages, but I am not sure. Other than that it is not really > > needed. > > If that was true, why does the man page for portupgrade tell you to do > the following > > o To perform upgrades effectively and correctly, remember to run > pkgdb(1) with -F on occasions to fix dependency discrepancies, > and run portsdb(1) with -Uu every time you CVSup the ports tree > to keep your ports INDEX database up-to-date in sync with the > tree. Ask the people who wrote that manpage. The portupgrade port might use INDEX. I don't use portupgrade, so I neither know nor care about what it does. The utilities in the base system don't need an up-to-date INDEX. > > When I checked the cvsweb.cgi, I see INDEX is currently 2 weeks old and > before INDEX-5 was updated recently, it was 8 weeks old. Yes, there are usually several weeks between updates of INDEX. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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