Ports INDEX
Kurt Jaeger
pi at freebsd.org
Wed Apr 14 19:48:29 UTC 2021
Hi!
> I just switched from using 'portsnap' to 'git'. I removed everything in
> the directory, then used 'git' to build it. That worked fine. I had to
> manually recreate the 'distfiles' directory, but I expected to have to
> do that.
>
> Now, if I run a 'make search' in the directory, I receive an error
> message that it needs the INDEX file. I ran "make index" and that
> seems to work alright. My question is, is that the best way to handle
> this?
There's a make target fetchindex.
So
cd /usr/ports
make fetchindex
fetches the index from some repo.
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pi at opsec.eu +49 171 3101372 Now what ?
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