portindex and INDEX.db

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 21:48:36 -0400 (EDT)
"Charles Ulrich" <charles at idealso.com> wrote:

> 
> Is there any downside to generating INDEX.db with the sysutils/portindex
> program rather than portsdb -Uu?

It's not the canonical way and it is not so much tested. 
I'm using it with no problems since portidex appeared.

Note that portindex generates INDEX(-5) and you still have to run
portsdb -u. If you like the idea of having you index rebuilt in a few
minutes, you might want to petition kris@ to run it on pointyhat on
regular builds and compare the results with `make index` output.

I'm using something like :

do_build_new_index() {
        echo
        if [ ! -e ${LOG_DIR}/need_new_index ]
        then
                echo "No need to rebuild INDEX-5"
                return 0
        fi
        cd /usr/ports || return 1
        cp INDEX-5 INDEX-5.bak || return 1
        if /usr/local/bin/portindex
        then
                rm ${LOG_DIR}/need_new_index
                cp INDEX.db INDEX.db.bak || return 1
                sort < /usr/ports/INDEX-5 > /tmp/INDEX-5.sorted
                mv /tmp/INDEX-5.sorted /usr/ports/INDEX-5
                echo '--- Done with INDEX building'
                echo
                echo '--- Begining building portsdb'
                /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -u  || cp INDEX.db.bak INDEX.db && return 1
                echo '--- Done bulding portsdb'
                echo
                cd /var/db/pkg  || return 1
                cp pkgdb.db pkgdb.db.bak || return 1
                /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb -u || cp pkgdb.db.bak pkgdb.db && return 1
		echo
        else
                echo "ports_upd-ERROR: Index build FAILLED, restoring old INDEX-5"
                cp INDEX-5.bak INDEX-5
                return 1
        fi
}



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