On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Christian Weisgerber <na...@mips.inka.de> wrote:
> On 2014-07-24, Kevin Oberman <rkober...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > Is there a reason you want to avoid using the index? It's worked just > >> fine > >> > for me for several months on systems with well over 1000 ports > installed. > >> > >> It isn't in sync with my ports tree > > > > 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) > > Which fetches an INDEX file that is regularly generated on some > FreeBSD server, but is not in sync with the exact revision of the > ports tree I just updated to. > > -- > Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de > Yes, but the INDEX is guaranteed to older than your tre, so you never get the ports installed as being newer than those in the ports tree. I always issue a fetchindex immediately after an 'svn up /usr/ports' so they are very close. It's worked for me for many years, going back to CVS days, of course. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ 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"
