FreeBSD-8 and portsnap

[barbara]

> On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 9:50 AM, barbara<barbara.xxx1975 at libero.it> wrote:
> >> On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 3:23 AM, barbara<barbara.xxx1975 at libero.it> wrote:
> >> > Why portsnap doesn't provide INDEX-8?
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >> Hi, Barbara
> >>
> >> They appear on my machine:
> >>
> >> %ls /usr/ports/INDEX-*
> >> /usr/ports/INDEX-5      /usr/ports/INDEX-7      /usr/ports/INDEX-8.bz2
> >> /usr/ports/INDEX-6      /usr/ports/INDEX-8
> >
> > If you remove them, you will see that INDEX-8 is missing.
> > Also check the dates of the files.
> > This will make portversion misbehave.
> >
> 
> I believe that is true with anything in ${PORTSDIR} -- if you remove a
> ${CATEGORY}/${PORT}, it will not be replaced through portsnap.  I am
> not sure if this is true for c(v)sup, as I don't use it for my ports
> tree, but I expect it would restore the missing directory/files/etc.
> 

If you remove those files and run portsnap fetch update again, you will find only fresh INDEX-[5-7].
Maybe it's caused by the fact INDEX-8 is not built on portsnap servers, but I really don't know.

Barbara