FreeBSD-8 and portsnap

Glen Barber glen.j.barber at gmail.com
Sun Jul 26 14:58:34 UTC 2009


On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Kamigishi Rei<spambox at haruhiism.net> wrote:
> barbara wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Apparently, I can confirm this.
> I use portsnap fetch extract to populate my /usr/ports tree on all my
> systems, and on 8-CURRENT machines 8-INDEX seems missing.
>

Out of curiosity, does 'portsnap fetch update -I' restore INDEX-8?  I
am not in front of my machine to test, at the moment.



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Glen Barber


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