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

Michael Nottebrock michaelnottebrock at gmx.net
Sat Nov 13 19:34:19 GMT 2004


Thomas-Martin Seck wrote:


> Well, it just tries to protect you against clobbering your working
> index file in case the index build fails.
> 
> portsdb calls 'make index' with INDEXFILE set to $PORTSDIR/INDEX.tmp and
> copies this temporary index file over when 'make index' was successful.

Yes, but it doesn't handle INDEXFILE being redefined (for example in make.conf).

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