How to update ports tree indexes when using svn
Warren Block
wblock at wonkity.com
Mon Dec 10 16:27:01 UTC 2012
On Mon, 10 Dec 2012, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 10/12/2012 14:39, S.N.Grigoriev wrote:
>> after the security announcement
>> (http://www.freebsd.org/news/2012-compromise.html) I use svn to
>> update my local ports tree. I've found out that the port index is not
>> updated. What is the preferred/recommended way to update port indexes
>> when using svn?
>
> That ports INDEX generated for 'make fetchindex' is not being updated is
> a temporary thing, while machines are quarantined and rebuilt. So you
> could just wait for a few weeks until service is resumed.
'portmaster -L' also seems to work without an updated index, just leave
out the --index-only option. I have not looked to see how it does that
so quickly, or verified that it does not miss anything.
# portmaster -L | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install'
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