Does pkg automatically download INDEX?

[Naram Qashat]

On 08/04/14 15:41, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Aug 2014 16:27:36 -0400
> 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.
>
> How do you update the ports tree, with portsnap or with svn? Portnap
> also updates the index.
>
> Bye,
> Alexander.

I update via svn, so that isn't getting the INDEX updates.

Thanks,
Naram Qashat