Portsnap support on CURRENT

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 02:40:49PM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote:
> 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 are out of date and require updating.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

Should usually be good enough:

setenv INDEXFILE INDEX-6

Kris
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