cvsup and ports INDEX

[Kent Stewart]

On Tuesday 22 June 2004 10:19 pm, Matt Navarre wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 June 2004 09:51, Kent Stewart wrote:
> > On Tuesday 22 June 2004 09:27 pm, Matt Navarre wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 22 June 2004 07:05, epilogue at allstream.net wrote:
> > > > hello all,
>
> <snip>
>
> > > This checks out the new ports text file.
> > >
> > > > # portsdb -Uu                          <<<<<<< ...this?
> > >
> > > This builds INDEX.db, which is all the ports/dependency
> > > information in the format that portupgrade(and others?) uses so
> > > it can get all the right ports when you install something.
> > >
> > > > i'm not sure i have a firm grasp of why i do both.  are they
> > > > complimentary or redundant steps?  could someone please clarify
> > > > or point me to right set of docs?
> > >
> > > They're complimentary, portsdb -uU doesn't really do anything
> > > unless you have a new /usr/ports/INDEX or /usr/ports/INDEX.db got
> > > hosed.
> >
> > This isn't true. Portsdb -U creates a brand new INDEX using your
> > current /usr/ports and -u uses that to generate a new INDEX.db
>
> That's not what the man page implys:
>
>
>     "The portsdb command is a tool to generates the ports database
> named INDEX.db from the ports index file named INDEX.  It is commonly
> used among the tool suite and automatically updated on demand when it
> gets older than the index file"
>
> I'm not sayin' you're wrong, since I read that a long while ago and
> haven't needed to know anything more about portsdb since, but you and
> the description in portsdb(1) seem to disagree.
>
> Yes, the -U option does "Update or create the ports index file called
> INDEX", it's just not evident from the description that it can use
> the installed ports tree.

If you are to run it after you cvsup ports-all, what do you think it is 
using?

In addition,  portsdb -U now runs "make index" but you would have to 
search -ports@ to read about that change. You can read comments about 
it on
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/sysutils/portupgrade/Makefile 
see the commit message for version 1.78.

Kent
>
> So I was kinda right. A little :)



>
> > Kent
>
> Matt

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