Cvsup refuse confusion

Matthew Seaman m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Mon Sep 22 09:48:48 PDT 2003


On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 11:39:33AM -0500, Andrew L. Gould wrote:

> Also, should you be refusing to update ports/INDEX? I refuse the non-English 
> ports; but my refuse file does not include ports/INDEX.

Most people will rebuild the INDEX immediately after running cvsup(1),
either by running "make index" or by running "portsdb -Uu".  In that
case, it's not worth dragging down 3Mb of INDEX just to write over it
again almost immediately.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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