Lots of installed ports show "succeeds index"

[Kevin Oberman]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Christian Weisgerber <naddy at mips.inka.de>
wrote:

> On 2014-07-24, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> > Is there a reason you want to avoid using the index? It's worked just
> >> fine
> >> > for me for several months on systems with well over 1000 ports
> installed.
> >>
> >> It isn't in sync with my ports tree
> >
> > Which begs the question, why is it out of sync? If you update your ports
> > tree, all you need to do is:
> > make -C /usr/ports fetchindex (takes a few seconds)
>
> Which fetches an INDEX file that is regularly generated on some
> FreeBSD server, but is not in sync with the exact revision of the
> ports tree I just updated to.
>
> --
> Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de
>

Yes, but the INDEX is guaranteed to  older than your tre, so you never get
the ports installed as being newer than those in the ports tree.

I always issue a fetchindex immediately after an 'svn up /usr/ports' so
they are very close. It's worked for me for many years, going back to CVS
days, of course.
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com