error in "make index"

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 03:51:32AM -0500, Adam Weinberger wrote:

> >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.

Well, building your own index is still strictly better because it's
customized for the local system.  Perhaps we just need to train people
to use portsdb -uUF instead of -uU (assuming that DTRT).

> >>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?

As long as it contains a patch :)

Kris
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