[HEADS UP] Ports Infrastructure Changes

[Olivier Smedts]

2011/3/23 Olivier Smedts <olivier at gid0.org>:
> 2011/3/23 Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org>:
>> On 03/23/2011 11:34, Olivier Smedts wrote:
>>>
>>> 2011/3/23 Doug Barton<dougb at freebsd.org>:
>>>>
>>>> On 03/23/2011 03:48, Peter Jeffery wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> If I was looking for the Opera port, I'd look in www-clients and if
>>>>> it wasn't in there then the next thing that I would be doing is hand
>>>>> searching the INDEX file
>>>>
>>>> cd /usr/ports/&&  make search name=opera
>>>
>>> Or
>>> find /usr/ports -maxdepth 2 -name opera
>>> Slower than make search but faster than building an INDEX file before
>>> make search !
>>
>> Who said anything about building an INDEX? :)  If you use portsnap to update
>> your ports tree it comes along for free. If not, then 'make fetchindex' will
>> do the trick for you.
>
> Will it take care of my INDEX-9 file for FreeBSD 9-CURRENT with the
> following setting I just appended to /etc/portsnap.conf ?
> # tail -n 1 /etc/portsnap.conf
> INDEX INDEX-9 DESCRIBE.9

I've got my answer, now that there's a new snapshot on portsnap servers.
# portsnap fetch update
[...]
Building new INDEX files... DESCRIBE.9 not provided by portsnap
server; INDEX-9 not being generated.

> I'm not sure (no irony, really asking), because "portsnap update -I"
> does not modify /usr/ports/INDEX-9. Maybe DESCRIBE.9 is not
> distributed on the portsnap servers.
>
>
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> Olivier Smedts                                                 _
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