Up-to-date INDEXes may now be downloaded from www.freebsd.org

[Richard Coleman]

Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 10:26:28AM -0400, Richard Coleman wrote:
> 
>>Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Up-to-date INDEX files may now be downloaded from the following
>>>locations:
>>>
>>>4.x:
>>> http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/INDEX   
>>>
>>>5.x:
>>> http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/INDEX-5
>>>
>>>These are updated once an hour upon the successful completion of the
>>>INDEX tinderbox builds.  They are built for the top of the RELENG_4
>>>and HEAD branches, but will mostly be suitable for other supported
>>>releases as well.
>>>
>>>Now that this service is in place, INDEX files will probably only be
>>>updated in the CVS repository for release builds.
>>>
>>>Kris
>>
>>Why not auto-commit them to CVS?
> 
> 
> Because cvsup users would rise up and lynch me, especially modem
> users.
> 
> Kris

True enough.  I guess my cable modem has spoiled me.

Richard Coleman
richardcoleman at mindspring.com