On Fri, 23 May 2025 18:43:01 +0200 Piotr Smyrak <ps.po...@smyrak.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 May 2025 09:21:56 -0700 > "Dan Mahoney (Ports)" <free...@gushi.org> wrote: > > > > On May 23, 2025, at 05:00, Piotr Smyrak <ps.po...@smyrak.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 23 May 2025 04:25:45 -0700 > > > "Dan Mahoney (Ports)" <free...@gushi.org> wrote: > > > > > >> pkg has a feature, pkg updating, which basically requires you to > > >> have a checked out ports tree. > > >> > > >> Are there any plans to make this function possible without having a > > >> ports tree checked out, by baking the “UPDATING” data into the repo > > >> file somehow? > > > > > > Do you mean something like fetchupdating similarly to fetchindex > > > target? Or even more standalone? > > > > My copy of pkg doesn’t seem to know what to do if I type pkg > > fetchindex. > > > > I think a good thing would be to bring it into parity with pkg-audit, > > which also depends on a file that’s not normally part of the pkg > > repo, but which has an inbuilt command to fetch it. > > I am used to think in ports terms rather than pkg, and such was also my > answer. > > make fetchindex – executed within the ports tree downloads a newest copy > of ports INDEX from project servers. > > So the URL mentioned by Tomoaki-san and the oneliner posted later by > me, would give you a solution you were looking for. > > -- > Piotr Smyrak `make fetchindes` on /usr/ports (unless you moved it to somewhere else) instead of `pkg fetchindex` should work. But fetched INDEX* could NOT match the tree as regenerating it takes time. But unlike pkgs in official repo, previous INDEX* are not deleted until next one finishes. If you have ports-mgmt/portupgrade[-devel] installed, `portsdb -F` does the same thing and `portsdb -Fu` updates portupgrade specific database using just fetched INDEX*. Note that INDEX* (INDEX-14 for 14.*) is a "text database" to show what's going to be built for official pkgs and their relationships, and UPDATING is a "document for admins" to instruct how to update their ports/pkgs installed that needs special cares. So they are completely different files. -- Tomoaki AOKI <junch...@dec.sakura.ne.jp>
