Portsnap support on CURRENT
    Martin Wilke 
    unixfreunde at gmail.com
       
    Sat Feb 11 02:24:53 PST 2006
    
    
  
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On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:40:49 -0800
Freddie Cash <fcash at ocis.net> 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 are out of date and require updating.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
> 
Hi
i have in my make.conf INDEXFILE=INDEX-6 this works.
Greets Martin
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