On 05/12/06 07:56, gareth wrote: > On Fri 2006-05-12 (07:31), Jonathan Noack wrote: >> Ah, I made a mistake in my explanation. Replace INDEX-5.db with >> INDEX-5. Sorry for the confusion... >> >> "make fetchindex" downloads the INDEX-x file (where 'x' is the major >> release number of the version of FreeBSD you are using -- in this case >> '5'). When this file is newer than INDEX-x.db, the portupgrade tools >> will automatically build an updated version of INDEX-x.db. As such, it >> is not necessary to do anything further than "make fetchindex". >> Building INDEX-x takes forever (and may be overheating your machine >> causing freezes/reboots), but building INDEX-x.db is quite fast. >> >> If you want to make sure everything is updated with a single command, >> replace the '-U' with '-F' for "portsdb -Fu" (hehe -- I love it when >> arguments work out like that...). That will 1) download the INDEX-x >> file instead of building it from scratch, and then 2) build an updated >> INDEX-x.db. >> >> Correction: portsnap automatically builds an up-to-date INDEX-x, not >> INDEX-5.db. "portversion" is building the INDEX-x.db file from INDEX-x. > > ah ok, thanx that's much clearer now. > > so for interest's sake: > > 'portsdb -F' is the same as 'make fetchindex', and
Yes. > 'portsdb -u' is the same as the first part of 'portversion' Yes, but using '-u' is not necessary. From the portsdb(1) man page description of the '-u' option: "Note: the ports database file is automatically updated if it is not up-to-date when looked up, so manual updating is not mandatory." I use '-u' only when I share /usr/ports between machines via NFS. Because I don't want them fighting over updating the INDEX-x.db file, I run "portsdb -Fu" when I update /usr/ports so that all machines have a fresh version. -Jonathan -- Jonathan Noack | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195
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