INDEX-5 is deleted then reconstructed by "make index"

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 21:39:35 -0600, Scot W. Hetzel <hetzelsw at westbend.net> 
wrote:

> From: "Dorin H." <dhogea at yahoo.com>
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>>   The incantation to update the ports is according to
>> the list (after cvsuping the sources):
>>
>> 1. make index
>> 2. portsdb -u
>> 3. portversion -l "<"
>> ...
>>
>> Nevertheless, the "make index" starts by deleting the
>> INDEX-5 file; then it recreates INDEX-5. This takes
>> some considerable time.
>> Would it be possible to jump over "1.make index" and
>> go straight to step 2 (it would save a lot of
>> time...)? Or there are other artifacts created by
>> "make index" process?
>>
> The INDEX* files that you receive from cvsup are outdated, as these files
> are only occasionally updated in the ports CVS repository.  Doing the 
> 'make
> index' updates these files to contain the latest information as of the 
> date
> you cvsuped.
>
> Otherwise when you run portsdb and portversion to check your ports
> collection, it'll report that your current packages are up to date, and 
> you
> won't know that your ports are out of date.

I never do the 'make index' and never use portsdb/portversion, because the 
pkg_version works much better. I only find the 'make index' or different 
way to rebuild the INDEX are useful for the search if the INDEX is out of 
date, but I use www.freshports.org most of time.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Scot


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