error in "make index"

[Adam Weinberger]

Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 03:38:56AM -0500, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> 
>>Mark Linimon wrote:
>>
>>>Sigh.  Already fixed.  A quick check of tonight's mailing list would
>>>have confirmed that this has already been reported.  Please re-cvsup
>>>and try again.
>>>
>>>I'm beginning to wonder if when we took INDEX out of the repository
>>>we should have disabled the index target, or aliased it to the
>>>fetchindex one.
>>>
>>>I would really advocate that most people move to "make fetchindex"
>>>and only use "make index" if there is some pressing reason (local
>>>non-standard ports installations, unusual and well-understood
>>>make.conf options).
>>
>>I've already suggested this to knu, but it bears repeating here: I'd 
>>really really really strongly advocate portupgrade running 'make 
>>fetchindex' instead of 'make index'.
> 
> 
> The corresponding change was committed today.

It seems that it only does so if you run 'portsdb -F' manually yourself. 
If you remove INDEX* and run 'portupgrade -a', it still attempts to 
build INDEX the 'make index' way.

>>And frankly, I'd support having 'make fetchindex' run automatically by 
>>the ports build system if the ${PORTS_INDEX} file doesn't exist.
> 
> That sounds like a good idea.

Should I open a PR for it?

# Adam


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