cvs commit: ports/sysutils/portupgrade Makefile distinfo

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 15:43:35 +0000 (UTC)
Norikatsu Shigemura <nork at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

>   (5) The frequency of INDEX generation on official site is now
> sufficient, recommend to run "portsdb -F" (fetch INDEX from official
> site) instead of "portsdb -U" (make INDEX by yourself) in portsdb(1).
> [1] 

>   PR:             ports/91164
>   Submitted by:   KOMATSU Shinichiro <koma2 at lovepeers.org>
> (maintainer) Pointed out by: Enrique Matias <cronopios at gmail dot
> com> [1]

This is a very bad idea; locally generated INDEX contains all
use-defined OPTIONS, etc. while the fetched one contains only the
defaults thus his has the potential to break the wonderful
upward-recursive usage of portupgrade.

I would rather recommend using sysutils/p5-FreeBSD-portindex to
generate the INDEX locally and fast.


I strongly suggest that this is backed-out (or at very least explained
i the man page).

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