Ports in Subversion and the INDEX file

Matthew D. Fuller fullermd at over-yonder.net
Thu Aug 23 09:46:34 UTC 2012


On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:21:24AM +0200 I heard the voice of
Christer Solskogen, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> how do you regenerate this file these days? make index seems to take
> a pretty long time.

I switch to using portsnap years back, which provides it prebuilt.  I
prefer that to fetchindex, since I know it matches the ports it's
given me.


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