Re: portsdb and portupgrade causes errors

2004-12-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:24:05PM -0800, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > On Thursday 23 December 2004 09:59 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 09:42:37PM -0800, Brian Behlendorf wrote: > > > >run make fetchindex not make fetch index from /usr/ports > > > > > > Out of curiosity, why is

Re: portsdb and portupgrade causes errors

2004-12-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:27, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > Because the way we used to do it required tremendous churn in the > > CVS repository. And it was _still_ out of date. > > We in user land don't see that end of things :) Why does INDEX have to > go into the CVS repository anyways? Guess that

Re: portsdb and portupgrade causes errors

2004-12-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:13, Mark Linimon wrote: > There's really quite a bit of email in the mailing list archives > about why this was done. The short summary is that in the short > run there is some pain but in the long run this is a win for the > project, and the users. IMHO it would have been

Re: portsdb and portupgrade causes errors

2004-12-23 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 23 December 2004 10:43 pm, you wrote: > On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > Way back when, I used to get the INDEX when running cvsup unless > > I put it in the refuse file. Of coarse it was old and useless so > > one was better off building their own INDEX. So why cant w

Re: portsdb and portupgrade causes errors

2004-12-23 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > Way back when, I used to get the INDEX when running cvsup unless > I put it in the refuse file. Of coarse it was old and useless so one was > better off building their own INDEX. So why cant we just receive the > INDEX like we used to, but unlike

Re: portsdb and portupgrade causes errors

2004-12-23 Thread zean
# cd /usr/ports && make index-> failure? ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: portsdb and portupgrade causes errors

2004-12-23 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 23 December 2004 09:59 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 09:42:37PM -0800, Brian Behlendorf wrote: > > >run make fetchindex not make fetch index from /usr/ports > > > > Out of curiosity, why isn't the index included in the update > > normally? > > It changes dozens of t

Re: portsdb and portupgrade causes errors

2004-12-23 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 23 December 2004 09:42 pm, Brian Behlendorf wrote: > On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > On Thursday 23 December 2004 08:50 pm, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > >> These days it is best to run make fetch index from /usr/ports > >> after you've run cvsup rather than build INDEX-5

Re: portsdb and portupgrade causes errors

2004-12-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 09:42:37PM -0800, Brian Behlendorf wrote: > >run make fetchindex not make fetch index from /usr/ports > > Out of curiosity, why isn't the index included in the update normally? It changes dozens of times per day, and the deltas would be enormous. Kris pgpxowY2MltXM.pgp

Re: portsdb and portupgrade causes errors

2004-12-23 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Thursday 23 December 2004 08:50 pm, Michael C. Shultz wrote: These days it is best to run make fetch index from /usr/ports after you've run cvsup rather than build INDEX-5 for yourself. -Mike correction: run make fetchindex not make fetch index from

Re: portsdb and portupgrade causes errors

2004-12-23 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 23 December 2004 08:50 pm, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > These days it is best to run make fetch index from /usr/ports > after you've run cvsup rather than build INDEX-5 for yourself. > > -Mike correction: run make fetchindex not make fetch index from /usr/ports __

Re: portsdb and portupgrade causes errors

2004-12-23 Thread whitevamp
- Original Message - From: "Michael C. Shultz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 8:50 PM Subject: Re: portsdb and portupgrade causes errors > On Thursday 23 December 2004 08:37 pm, whitevamp wrote: > > i dont know weathere this place

Re: portsdb and portupgrade causes errors

2004-12-23 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 23 December 2004 08:37 pm, whitevamp wrote: > i dont know weathere this place to be posting this to or not .. if > not point me in the right direction to go.. > > i have just updated my system to 5.3 frrom 4.9 and now every time i > goto run portsdb , or portupgrade iget the same error

portsdb and portupgrade causes errors

2004-12-23 Thread whitevamp
i dont know weathere this place to be posting this to or not .. if not point me in the right direction to go.. i have just updated my system to 5.3 frrom 4.9 and now every time i goto run portsdb , or portupgrade iget the same error message.and i also have a nother 5.3 box that was a fresh ins