Does pkg automatically download INDEX?

[Kevin Oberman]

On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Naram Qashat <cyberbotx at cyberbotx.com>
wrote:

> On 08/03/14 15:53, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>
> I'm at a bit of a loss, then. While I can't say for sure if pkg is doing
> something unintended, there seems to be something on my system that is
> downloading INDEX without my knowledge.
>
> My usual way of updating my INDEX is using p5-FreeBSD-Portindex to
> generate the INDEX file, and using that INDEX to update the files that
> portupgrade uses. I run that manually, so I have nothing that would do that
> for me automatically, to my knowledge.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Naram Qasha
>

Are you doing anything between building the index and running "pkg
version"? I can tell you that portmaster will download the "latest" index
unless you use the --no-index-fetch option. I don't know about other tools,
but it caught me by surpize.
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