index update

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 09:33:15PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> Hey people,
> 
> Reading the manpage for portsdb, and looking at some examples where this is
> run
> 
> /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu
> 
> I'm wondering what the difference between this and
> 
> cd /usr/ports && make index
> 
> is. Don't they both rebuild the index?

Yes (in fact the former calls the latter), but the former also
rebuilds the INDEX.db used by portupgrade and friends.

Kris

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