Portsnap support on CURRENT

[Scott Robbins]

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On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 04:43:33PM -0500, Paul Mather wrote:

> I've noticed lately a lot of "succeeds port" messages when I run
> portversion (from the portupgrade port) to list which of my packages are
> out of date and require updating.  These messages are incorrect (i.e.,
> the "port has" version identified by portversion is older than that in
> the actual port Makefile), and I don't get incorrect identifications
> from either pkg_version or portmanager.  (I also don't get this problem
> on a RELENG_6 system I have, either.)
> 
> After a little looking, I discovered that my /usr/ports/INDEX-7 file is
> not being updated.  Investigation of the portsnap source reveals that it
> only actually generates INDEX, INDEX-5, and INDEX-6 from portsnap
> updates in extract_indices(); it doesn't generate INDEX-7.
> 
> So, is /usr/sbin/portsnap currently supported on CURRENT?  It appears to
> keep /usr/ports up to date, just not the index file.  For now, I've
> switched to using sysutils/portmanager from ports for upgrading ports,
> but I'm not entirely happy with that for a variety of reasons.  Plus,
> some /usr/ports/UPDATING instructions advocate using portupgrade
> explicitly, so it would be nice to have portupgrade working fully. :-)
> 

I had the same problem (on CURRENT, with 6.x working perfectly.)  Like
you I tracked it down to the INDEX file not being updated. 

My temporary hack is to simply rn pkgdb -Fu (hrm, who thought of those
flags?) :) before running portversion. 


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