"portmanager -s" deletes ports?

[Garrett Cooper]

Pieter de Goeje wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 May 2007, illoai at gmail.com wrote:
>> On 23/05/07, Norberto Meijome <freebsd at meijome.net> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 23 May 2007 03:15:05 +0100
>>>
>>> RW <fbsd06 at mlists.homeunix.com> wrote:
>>>> pkg_version -vl"<" will give you a list of out of date ports.
>>> Alternatively,
>>>
>>> portversion -v | grep \<
>>>
>>> eg:
>>>
>>> [betom at ayiin] [Wed May 23 17:26:33 2007]
>>> /usr/home/betom
>>> $ portversion -v | grep \<
>>> [Updating the portsdb <format:bdb_btree> in /var/tmp ... - 17232 port
>>> entries found
>>> .........1000.........2000.........3000.........4000.........5000........
>>> .6000.........7000.........8000.........9000.........10000.........11000..
>>> .......12000.........13000.........14000.........15000.........16000......
>>> ...17000.. ..... done] eclipse-3.2.1_1             <  needs updating (port
>>> has 3.2.1_3) en-openoffice.org-GB-2.2.0  <  [held] needs updating (port
>>> has 2.2.0_1) gnomehier-2.2_1             <  needs updating (port has
>>> 2.2_2)
>> % pkg_version -vL=
>> (slow, but works for 7.x)
> I believe it is safe (for now) to symlink INDEX-6 as INDEX-7. This will allow 
> pkg_version -I to be used on -CURRENT.
>> or
>> % pkg_version -vIL=
>> (faster, assuming you have an up-to-date INDEX, 5.x or 6.x)
>> if you don't use ports-mgmt/portupgrade
> 
> - Pieter de Goeje

	This will may change in the future, so I don't suggest doing that.
	INDEX-7 is automatically downloaded when you get "make fetchindex" 
anyhow, so why do you want to symlink the two Indeces?
-Garrett