Missing INDEX file in Ports

[Michael C. Shultz]

On Friday 28 January 2005 12:39 am, Michael Johnson wrote:
> On Jan 28, 2005, at 3:28 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Kent Stewart [mailto:kstewart at owt.com]
> >> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:34 PM
> >> To: Ted Mittelstaedt
> >> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> >> Subject: Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports
> >>
> >> On Thursday 27 January 2005 11:30 pm, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> >>>> -----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.
> >>
> >> You would have to go to the cvsweb.cgi attic to find out how
> >> many months
> >> it has been removed from ports.
> >
> > Do you really think I care how long it's been removed?
> >
> > Your missing the point.  INDEX is supposed to be in the RELEASES
> > on the CDROMs because the CD's are supposed to be self-contained,
> > ie: you should not require an Internet connection to get a complete
> > install.  Otherwise there's no point in even bothering to release
> > the CDROMS in the first place.
> >
> > INDEX isn't in SNAPS and such because it makes no sense generating
> > it for a ports tree that's open for committing since new ports
> > could be added at any time.  However the ports tree on the CDROM is
> > static, not dynamic.
> >
> > Please note the following:
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.11R/schedule.html
>
> Yeah, I totally agree, INDEX should be included in ports.tar.gz for
> at least RELEASES.
>
> Michael
>
Won't "make index" work on the release CDs? Maybe they needed the space 
for something else?

-Mike