Re: ports INDEX file layout?

2010-07-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Aiza writes: > Where can I find the description of the /usr/ports/INDEX-8 file? Try bsd.ports.mk. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-quest

ports INDEX file layout?

2010-07-27 Thread Aiza
Where can I find the description of the /usr/ports/INDEX-8 file? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: ports INDEX file

2010-07-23 Thread RW
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:56:56 +0800 Fbsd8 wrote: > tree is no big deal, but I bet they don't do backups. If that's an issue, don't back it up. > That ports tree > directory is a large resource hog if you lift the blinders and look > at the big picture. > Just my 2 cents. Funnily enough that'

Re: ports INDEX file

2010-07-23 Thread Benjamin Lee
On 07/23/2010 01:56 AM, Fbsd8 wrote: > Now about my project. Since about 4.0 I stopped using the ports tree > method. I now all most totally use the package system. I do not upgrade > a RELEASE but instead use the "install from scratch" method about a few > weeks after a new RELEASE is published. S

Re: ports INDEX file

2010-07-23 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
On 07/23/2010 03:56 AM, Fbsd8 wrote: > Now the Freebsd method of the 22,000 individual ports each with 3 to 5 > files is a method which has out lived its usefulness. TAKE NOTE: NO > FLAME WAR INTENDED. I just think a option should exist for us who don't > follow the bleeding edge. Sure to some peop

Re: ports INDEX file

2010-07-23 Thread b. f.
On 7/23/10, Fbsd8 wrote: > b. f. wrote: >>> Benjamin Lee wrote: On 07/22/2010 06:20 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: ... >> > Well first thanks for the info you provided though it was all negative. I think that you were misinterpreting what I wrote if you think that it was all negative. > I will explain wh

Re: ports INDEX file

2010-07-23 Thread Fbsd8
lem is in both cases the above ports require an existing INDEX file to process and since I have none they don't work. How can I just download the ports INDEX file? Portsnap is not a solution. I see in the source of porteasy that its fetching http://www.freebsd.org/ports/INDEX-8.bz2 How can

Re: ports INDEX file

2010-07-22 Thread b. f.
e the ports tree with only the ports I use. >>> >>> Problem is in both cases the above ports require an existing INDEX file >>> to process and since I have none they don't work. >>> >>> How can I just download the ports INDEX file? >>> Port

Re: ports INDEX file

2010-07-22 Thread Jason
le and which ever of the category Makefiles you use (ie. the Makefiles one level down the tree). Problem is in both cases the above ports require an existing INDEX file to process and since I have none they don't work. How can I just download the ports INDEX file? Portsnap is not a solution. You

Re: ports INDEX file

2010-07-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
efiles you use (ie. the Makefiles one level down the tree). > Problem is in both cases the above ports require an existing INDEX file > to process and since I have none they don't work. > > How can I just download the ports INDEX file? > Portsnap is not a solution. You can use

Re: ports INDEX file

2010-07-22 Thread Fbsd8
both cases the above ports require an existing INDEX file to process and since I have none they don't work. How can I just download the ports INDEX file? Portsnap is not a solution. Well, The INDEX file is a component of the ports tree distribution. If you choose not to use the supported met

Re: ports INDEX file

2010-07-22 Thread Benjamin Lee
in both cases the above ports require an existing INDEX file > to process and since I have none they don't work. > > How can I just download the ports INDEX file? > Portsnap is not a solution. Well, The INDEX file is a component of the ports tree distribution. If you choos

Re: ports INDEX file

2010-07-22 Thread Fbsd8
ases the above ports require an existing INDEX file to process and since I have none they don't work. How can I just download the ports INDEX file? Portsnap is not a solution. ___ You can use 'csup' to get the ports tree down. Y

Re: ports INDEX file

2010-07-22 Thread Tim Daneliuk
both cases the above ports require an existing INDEX file > to process and since I have none they don't work. > > How can I just download the ports INDEX file? > Portsnap is not a solution. > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mai

ports INDEX file

2010-07-22 Thread Fbsd8
process and since I have none they don't work. How can I just download the ports INDEX file? Portsnap is not a solution. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,