Up-to-date INDEXes may now be downloaded from www.freebsd.org

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Mon, 17 May 2004 01:26:10 -0700
Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:

> On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 10:33:05AM +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> > On Sun, 16 May 2004 18:49:25 -0700
> > Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Up-to-date INDEX files may now be downloaded from the following
> > > locations:
> > > 
> > > 4.x:
> > >   http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/INDEX   
> > > 
> > > 5.x:
> > >   http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/INDEX-5
> > 
> > Hurray !
> > This will save about 40 minutes on my building machine.
> > 
> > > These are updated once an hour upon the successful completion of the
> > > INDEX tinderbox builds.  They are built for the top of the RELENG_4
> > > and HEAD branches, but will mostly be suitable for other supported
> > > releases as well.
> > > 
> > > Now that this service is in place, INDEX files will probably only be
> > > updated in the CVS repository for release builds.
> > 
> > Could you explain this ? I think my English plays me a trick and I don't
> > understand what this mean. If I cvsup do I get the last good INDEX /
> > INDEX-5 ? Or it's the opposite ?
> 
> In the past INDEX files have only been updated in CVS very
> infrequently (once a month or more).  It's never been the case that
> cvsup gives you "the last good INDEX".

Yes, I know, that's way I'm was building my own index (and now I know I
have to continue to do that and probably to do some setup "a la bento"
because of the dependencies, thanks).

> Updating INDEXes once a month was pretty useless for most purposes
> since users either don't need to use the INDEX, or need it to be
> up-to-date.

Yes, but once an hour is another thing :-)

>  The only remaining need for INDEX files in CVS is for
> releases, so that release users get the INDEX file for that ports
> collection.
> 
> > BTW, is there any reason for which new things like pointyhat.freebsd.org
> > are not introduced to the "large public" ?
> 
> Yes, because pointyhat is still in beta :)

It looks nice, beta or not :) And is kind useful even if you're not a
maintainer as one can check there before reporting a problem.

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IOnut
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