On 12/03/13 12:41, Thomas Mueller wrote: > Is it necessary to make fetchindex after downloading or updating the ports > tree using svn? > > 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. > > Now I read that FreeBSD make has switched to bmake in the 10-stable and head > branches. > > So could I run "make fetchindex" from NetBSD even if I don't attempt to > actually build ports from NetBSD? > > I would have to point the MAKECONF to FreeBSD's /etc/make.conf rather than > use NetBSD's /etc/mk.conf which is specific to NetBSD. > > Or is it safe to skip "make fetchindex" entirely?
For most purposes you don't really need a copy of the INDEX. Some
software -- including portmaster(8), portupgrade(8) -- uses the INDEX
for various purposes, but even then I'm not sure if the presence of the
INDEX is mandatory for those.
If you do need a copy of the index, then you have two choices
* build your own. 'make index' will thrash your machine for upwards
of twenty minutes, but doesn't require any sort of network access.
(There's also ports-mgmt/p5-FreeBSD-Portindex, but I'm biased because I
wrote it...)
* Pull down the index from ne of the FreeBSD mirror sites. 'make
fetchindex' is just a wrapper around the command:
fetch -o INDEX-10.bz2 http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/INDEX-10.bz2
(or INDEX-11.bz2 for HEAD). You can use fetch(1), wget(1), curl(1) or
many other applications capable of pulling down a file from a webserver.
Any Unixoid OS will have the capability to do this.
Building ports on NetBSD is a whole other kettle of fish. It's not
going to work without a lot of effort to add compatibility changes.
(Getting the ports working on DFly which is much more closely related to
FBSD has been a fairly recent achievement, and that took quite a lot of
local patches.)
Cheers,
Matthew
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