Bad INDEX-7 file ?

[Fedor Dikarev]

Thanks for your advices. I've already rebuilt INDEX using portsdb -U,
but I'm sure that it'll be better for all freebsd-users if this
mistake will be fixed.

13 июля 2009 г. 16:33 пользователь Matthew Seaman
(m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk) написал:
> Fedor Dikarev wrote:
>>
>> By this command I've just explained that this port has version 1.3.8
>> but in INDEX-7 vesion differ -- it's 1.3.7.
>> So INDEX file is built on old ports tree or there was some bug during
>> building process.
>
> It's just an old INDEX-7 file -- as I recall, they are meant to be updated
> something like hourly, but on occasion there will be a problem and the INDEX
> files available for download may not be updated for an indefinite period,
> until
> the INDEX can be built cleanly again.
>
> Now, there are several things you can do about this:
>
>  * Ignore it.  Having a 100% accurate INDEX file is nice, but not an
>    absolute necessity.  Most ports management software will be forgiving
>    of the odd irregularity.  Even if it means package 'foo' doesn't get
>    updated today when it could have been, it would almost certainly get
>    updated tomorrow or next week.  It all works itself out in time.
>
>  * Use ports management software that doesn't rely on the presence of the
>    INDEX at all. viz: portmaster(1).  As I said, most ports management
>    software is fairly forgiving of irregularities in the INDEX, but this
>  program goes beyond that entirely and compares the database of installed
>    ports under /var/db/pkg/ directly with what is in the ports tree.
>
>  * Build your own.  You can just type 'make index' in /usr/ports.  Then go
>    away and have a nice cup of tea.  Then have another one.  And some
> biscuits.
>    It might have finished building by now...  Building your own INDEX
> usually
>    works pretty well, but it does take quite a while every time you have to
>    do it. It does get you an INDEX that reflects local settings you made in
>    /etc/make.conf or in OPTIONS dialogues, which is nice.  If I might be
>    permitted to tootle my own trumpet a bit, there is
>  ports-mgmt/p5-FreeBSD-Portindex that I wrote,  which can cut down the time
>    it takes to routinely build your own index by only reprocessing the bits
>    of the ports tree that have had updates since the previous time you built
> an
>    INDEX.
>            Cheers,
>
>        Matthew
>
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Федор Дикарев