Does pkg automatically download INDEX?

[Matthew Seaman]

On 03/08/2014 20:34, Naram Qashat wrote:
> Well, I've been using the command line arguments of "-voL '='", and
> looking at the man page for pkg-version, as far as I can tell, it
> shouldn't be downloading INDEX, since I do have INDEX-9 on my system.

pkg(8) doesn't download or attempt to build an INDEX at all.  It can use
one if one happens to be already available, but not otherwise.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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