Ports Index

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:33:40 -0500, Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> David wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have this error when building a port index.
>
> Out of curiosity, why are you building the index yourself instead of
> using 'make fetchindex'?

There are a few of reasons to build port index by yourself. The 'make  
fetchindex' don't sync with ports tree by 100% at most if you are using  
CVS/CVSup. If you modify any choice of dependency, it will changing the  
INDEX. You will have to build index by yourself if you have different  
branch of ports tree such as recently with xorg git, MC ports (GNOME  
stuff) or personal branch.

As for in my system:

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# ls -l /usr/ports | grep INDEX
-rw-r--r--     1 root  wheel       0 May 20  2006 INDEX.dummy
# make -V PORTS_INDEX
/usr/ports/INDEX.dummy
# portmaster rules
portmaster version 1.17

Usage:
[....] ;-)
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Cheers,
Mezz

> It's also worth noting that the other response you got was right. The
> first thing you should always do if you encounter an error is update
> your sources to see if it's been fixed already. :)
>
>
> hth,
>
> Doug


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