portupgrade ideas page

Sergey Matveychuk sem at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jun 8 07:34:11 PDT 2006


Kirill Ponomarew wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 11:55:31AM -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>> The portupgrade always work without INDEX. My INDEX is empty and I never  
>> need it.
>>
>> # ls -l /usr/ports/INDEX.dummy
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  0 May 20  2003 /usr/ports/INDEX.dummy
>>
>> # make -V PORTS_INDEX
>> /usr/ports/INDEX.dummy
>>
>> The portupgrade's pkgversion will not work without INDEX, but I prefer to  
>> use pkg_version instead.
> 
> Seconded.  During all these years I needed INDEX only for a couple
> of times.

Looks like you don't use 'make search'? :-)

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