[HEADS UP] PHP mega-commit

[Renato Botelho]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:54:33 +0200, Michael Nottebrock
<michaelnottebrock at gmx.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 July 2004 16:34, Patrick Oonk wrote:
> > Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 20 July 2004 16:05, Patrick Oonk wrote:
> > >>Then I try a 'portinstall /usr/ports/lang/php4-extensions'.
> > >>
> > >># portinstall /usr/ports/lang/php4-extensions
> > >>** No such installed package nor such port called
> > >>'/usr/ports/lang/php4-extensions' is found.
> > >
> > > You need to rebuild your INDEX first.
> >
> > Ok, but why? It's the first time in 10 years I have to do this
> > on a box :)
> 
> The INDEX distributed by cvsup has always lagged behind ports up to a week or
> two - if that never bit in conjunction with portinstall, you have been
> lucky :).
> 
> Since recently, it is not being automatically updated via cvsup anymore at all
> (starting in May, IIRC). You can either build it with make index/portsdb -U
> (directly after cvsup is a good time to do it), or fetch a pre-built INDEX
> (which might lag behind the actual ports-tree as it used to before though)
> with make fetchindex.

I´m using portindex (/usr/ports/sysutils/portindex), and I´m very happy with it.

It makes inclremental changes on INDEX, I runa cvsup on crontab, and
after run portindex, this run very fast and mantain my INDEX always
updated.

Regargs,
-- 
Renato Botelho