error in "make index"

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 03:38:56AM -0500, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> Mark Linimon wrote:
> >Sigh.  Already fixed.  A quick check of tonight's mailing list would
> >have confirmed that this has already been reported.  Please re-cvsup
> >and try again.
> >
> >I'm beginning to wonder if when we took INDEX out of the repository
> >we should have disabled the index target, or aliased it to the
> >fetchindex one.
> >
> >I would really advocate that most people move to "make fetchindex"
> >and only use "make index" if there is some pressing reason (local
> >non-standard ports installations, unusual and well-understood
> >make.conf options).
> 
> I've already suggested this to knu, but it bears repeating here: I'd 
> really really really strongly advocate portupgrade running 'make 
> fetchindex' instead of 'make index'.

The corresponding change was committed today.

> And frankly, I'd support having 'make fetchindex' run automatically by 
> the ports build system if the ${PORTS_INDEX} file doesn't exist.

That sounds like a good idea.

Kris
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