Missing INDEX file in Ports

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Kent Stewart
> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:19 PM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt
> Subject: Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports
> 
> 
> On Thursday 27 January 2005 11:00 pm, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> >   Has anyone seen this before, I just installed 4.11 and in
> > /usr/ports typed make search key="ghostscript" and the machine went
> > away for a couple hours to generate an INDEX file.  (this is a P75,
> > unfortunately)
> >
> >   Has anyone else noticed the INDEX file is missing in the
> > 4.11-RELEASE ports directory?
> >
> 
> If you cvsup ports-all, INDEX[-56] is deleted. You want to 
> cd /usr/ports
> make fetchindex
> 
> The fetch of a compressed file is much faster than generating it :).
> 

Even faster would have been for it to be on the same CDROM that the
rest of the ports directories were copied from.

Ted