Lost portupgrade functionality building INDEX

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Apr 20 15:25:18 PDT 2004


On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 05:09:02PM -0400, Jim Trigg wrote:
> While I understand the reasoning behind making portsdb -U use "make
> index" behind the scenes, it kills a bit of functionality.  portsdb -U
> no longer honors pkgtools.conf, so options set there will not be
> reflected in the dependencies shown in INDEX.  If I knew ruby, I'd try
> to write a new portsdb -U function, but I don't.  Is there any way we
> can get this functionality back while maintaining compatibility with
> make index in other ways?

Set your config options in make.conf instead of pkgtools.conf.

Kris
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