On Tue, 3 Dec 2013 04:41:17 -0800 (PST) Thomas Mueller wrote: > Is it necessary to make fetchindex after downloading or updating the > ports tree using svn?
Not absolutely, it's needed for portupgrade, port searches, and a number of utilities use it for speeding various things up. > I have new installations of head and 10-stable where I so far can't > connect to the Internet, though I can from Linux and NetBSD-current > amd64. > > So I use subversion, built on NetBSD from pkgsrc, to checkout and > update ports tree as well as system source tree. > > But I believe I can't run "make fetchindex" without Internet > connection. > You can run "make index" instead, it takes about 3 minutes on my desktop. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
