portmaster options
Polytropon
freebsd at edvax.de
Fri Oct 12 12:16:00 UTC 2012
On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:34:17 +0000 (UTC), jb wrote:
> Polytropon <freebsd <at> edvax.de> writes:
>
> >
> > On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 04:35:43 +0000 (UTC), jb wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > what is the diff between
> > > --index
> > > and
> > > --index-only
> > ...
> > --index
> > use INDEX-[7-9] exclusively to check if a port is up to date
> > ...
> > --index-only
> > do not try to use /usr/ports. For updating ports when no /usr/ports
> > directory is present the -PP|--packages-only option is required. See
> > the ENVIRONMENT section below for additional requirements.
> >
> > This means --index-only is to be used when using portmaster for
> > binary installs without an installed ports collection.
> >
>
> Well, yes, BUT they seem to be redundant (that's why I asked).
>
> # portmaster -L --index-only | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install'
> ===>>> New version available: smartmontools-5.43_1
> ===>>> 618 total installed ports
> ===>>> 1 has a new version available
>
> # portmaster -L --index | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install'
> ===>>> New version available: smartmontools-5.43_1
> ===>>> 618 total installed ports
> ===>>> 1 has a new version available
> #
Did you test this with or _without_ an actually installed ports
collection? If you don't have one installed, --index probably
won't work.
--
Polytropon
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Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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