Ports via svn, make fetchindex and make compatibility with NetBSD

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On Tue, 03 Dec 2013 13:27:57 +0000
Matthew Seaman wrote:

> If you do need a copy of the index, then you have two choices
> 
>    * build your own.  'make index' will thrash your machine for
> upwards of twenty minutes, 


That's pessimistic, on my low-end i5 with low-performance disks,
it takes between 2.25 and 3.5 minutes (depending on how many files are
already cached) with no noticeable impact on performance.