On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 04:41:17AM -0800, 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?
It is safe :) regards, Bapt
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