Thanks for your story. The only reason we used -U was that we were not
sure what they meant got special macros. The man page for portsdb
status that you only use -U if you have special macros in
/etc/make.conf. All we have in there is version information so I think
that does not apply to use.
Thanks again,
Arend
Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, Arend P. van der Veen wrote:
The approach that I had been using was:
/usr/local/bin/cvsup -L 0 /usr/sup/supfile
/usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu
This had worked great until the emacs22 update. Now portsdb crashes
due to the emacs entry in /etc/make.conf. However, I see very little
chatter on the lists about this. I have started to wonder if the bulk
of the community may be updating their ports differently. Upon some
limited research I found that I could use:
/usr/local/bin/cvsup -L 0 /usr/sup/supfile
/usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Fu
This work fine for me. I can then use tools such as pkg_version,
pkg_delete, portinstall and portupgrade without any problems.
My open ended question is what does the rest of the community do to
update their ports collection?
I don't run portsdb at all. :)
What I figured from the portsdb manpages is that if you don't run it
manually then it gets run upon using one of the portupgrade tools. I
don't mind the 30s or so delay that causes and so I don't run portsdb
manually.
During my first few days with FreeBSD, however, I used to run ''portsdb
-Fu''. My understanding is that that would fetch the INDEX-6 and update
INDEX-6.db (since I am on FreeBSD 6.x) but I don't see why I should do
this coz the INDEX files are updated when I update the ports tree
anyways! (If I have understood this incorrectly, someone please correct
me).
I tried ''portsdb -Uu'' just once. To see what it does. Took a long time
and so I never tried it again. From the manpage I understand that it
creates/ updates the INDEX files by running the ''make index'' command,
but the reasoning behind that didn't make sense to me ...
So that's my story.
Regards,
Rakhesh
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