Portsnap support on CURRENT

[Freddie Cash]

On Friday 10 February 2006 01:43 pm, 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 are out of date and require updating.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.

Workarounds until portsnap does it again, in order of length of time to 
generate INDEX-7:
  cd /usr/ports ; make fetchindex
  cd usr/ports ; make index
  pkgdb -U

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Freddie Cash
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