On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 03:58:34PM -0700 I heard the voice of Kevin Oberman, and lo! it spake thus: > > Which begs the question, why is it out of sync? If you update your ports > tree, all you need to do is: > make -C /usr/ports fetchindex (takes a few seconds)
That's only "probably close, if you do it shortly after svn up". > There are a couple of other "or"s, but I'll just say that you are > probably working too hard if you don't use an index. I prefer "or use portsnap, which pulls along INDEX for the tree as built (except when INDEX build is broken anyway, in which case it gets a little stale)". If portsnap had no other redeeming qualities, I'd probably still use it just for that one... -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fulle...@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream. _______________________________________________ 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"
