ports INDEX file

[Jason]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 06:14:12AM +0100, Matthew Seaman thus spake:
>On 23/07/2010 02:20:02, Fbsd8 wrote:
>> I have a pristine install  of 8.0.
>> There is no /usr/ports directory yet.
>> I am trying to use the "portcheckout" port and the "porteasy" port to
>> just populate the ports tree with only the ports I use.
>

Portcheckout really won't grab all the dependencies that are needed. I've
filed a PR for this.

I wrote up a quick script that has the same output that grabs all the
dependencies. Portcheckout doesn't grab dependencies of dependencies (ie.
make all-depends-list)

>I've heard of a few people trying to do things like this, and mostly the
>consensus is that's it's more trouble than it's worth.  Good luck.
>
>In order to make your cut-down tree work properly, you'ld have to
>maintain custom versions of /usr/ports/Makefile and which ever of the
>category Makefiles you use (ie. the Makefiles one level down the tree).
>
>> Problem is in both cases the above ports require an existing INDEX file
>> to process and since I have none they don't work.
>>
>> How can I just download the ports INDEX file?
>> Portsnap is not a solution.
>
>You can use my ports-mgmt/p5-FreeBSD-Portindex port to build an INDEX
>file -- ideally you should get it to run without complaints about
>missing dependencies and such, but if you don't it will do the best it
>can to produce something resembling an INDEX.
>
>	Cheers,
>
>	Matthew
>
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