HEADSUP: INDEX[-5] files were removed from CVS.

[Michael Nottebrock]

Kent Stewart wrote:

> On Saturday 13 November 2004 05:58 am, Kirill Ponomarew wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 12:39:15AM +1100, Mark Russell wrote:
>>
>>>please back this out, it breaks things, I've never found an out of date
>>>index to be a problem, now not havign an index is causing problems, also
>>>the extra bandwidth for fetch index is a hassle.
>>
>>What things did it break ?  If you want to save your bandwidth, you
>>can use "make index" in /usr/ports/.
>>
> 
> 
> If someone would commit ports/73612, we would have a fast generator like 
> portindex back :).

Also sysutils/portsnap is an alternative for updating ports trees which 
shouldn't be affected by the deletion of the indices from CVS either.


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