HEADSUP: INDEX[-5] files were removed from CVS.

[Michael Nottebrock]

Mark Russell wrote:


> I realize ports doesn't have branches, I've also discovered the hours of 
> work I have to do due to MAJOR changes in the system not being discussed 
> with the userbase
> 
> eg
> 
> [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 442 
> packages found (-0 +1) . done]
> Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..


It seems that portsdb makes some rather bogus assumptions about the value of 
INDEXFILE and other things... it might be best to generate the index by 'make 
index' instead of the time being.


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