portsdb -Uu

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 11:58:46PM -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
> ke han wrote:
> > I am using
> > portsnap fetch
> > portsnap update
> > 
> > to sync my ports tree on FreeBSd 6.1...it seems it maintains an index
> > when I run update.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > I am used to using:
> > portsversion and portsupdate to upgrade ports...in this method I have
> > also used
> > portsdb -Uu
> > to rebuild an index anytime prior to running these commands...yes
> > portsdb takes a while and I've always wondered if this is necessary
> > prior to running any of these commands..
> 
> portsdb -Uu does two things:
> 1. It rebuilds the ports INDEX.  This is done by "portsdb -U" and takes a long time.
> 2. It rebuilds the ports INDEX.db database.  This is done by "portsdb -u", takes
> only a few seconds, and is done automatically when you run portupgrade if the
> database is out of date.
> 
> > So my question is:  Is the index being maintained by portsnap the same
> > or a replacement to that used by portupgrade?  Do I have to maintain
> > both sets of indexes in order to use portsupdate??
> 
> The ports INDEX file generated by "portsdb -U" is the same file as portsnap
> generates.  Since the INDEX.db database is generated automatically, this means
> there is no need to run portsdb between running portsnap and running portupgrade.
> 
> My standard ports update/upgrade procedure is:
> portsnap fetch
> portsnap update
> pkg_version -vIL=	# this is equivalent to "portversion -vL="
> portupgrade -a

When I installed portsnap with 'portsnap fetch extract' and then ran
portupgrade -fa (this was during an update from 6.x to 7.x), it
replaced the index with the one from 'make fetchindex'.

> 
> Colin Percival
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