cvs commit: ports UPDATING

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 03:49:30AM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 02:31:24AM +0000, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> >
> >
> >>| +  Due to the recent removal of INDEX and INDEX-5 from FreeBSD's CVS,
> >>| +  portupgrade with default configuration will run 'make index' if 
> >>started
> >>| +  after cvsup'ing the ports-collection. This may take an undesirably 
> >>long
> >>| +  time.
> >>| +
> >>| +  There are several ways to work around this, for example:
> >>| +
> >>| +  - Run 'make fetchindex' after cvsup'ing ports.
> >>| +
> >>| +  or
> >>| +
> >>| +  - Adjust the PORTS_INDEX variable in your environment or in
> >>| +    pkgtools.conf (see portupgrade(1) or the default pkgtools.conf) to
> >>| +    a different value than the default.
> >
> >
> >ITYM INDEXFILE, unless portupgrade uses its own variable for that (in
> >which case you'd want to set both).
> 
> It does, and it does not like INDEXFILE being redefined (it sets INDEXFILE 
> itself when calling make index and gets confused if INDEXFILE is already 
> changed by way of make.conf. It does not have a problem with INDEXFILE 
> being different from "INDEX"/"INDEX-5" if you patch bsd.port.mk though, not 
> sure why.)

Hmm, that sounds kind of lame :(  Users are supposed to be able to
override INDEXFILE to e.g. work with read-only ports trees.

Kris
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