When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

[jb]

Tim Daneliuk <tundra <at> tundraware.com> writes:

> ... 
> > I use portsnap fetch update and it works...
> 
> Ah, maybe that was the problem.  That works for me as well.

Well, not quite ...
# portsnap fetch update
Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 6 mirrors found.
Fetching snapshot tag from ec2-eu-west-1.portsnap.freebsd.org... done.
Ports tree hasn't changed since last snapshot.
No updates needed.
Ports tree is already up to date.
# ls -al /usr/ports/IN*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  26879548 Nov 26 11:50 /usr/ports/INDEX-7
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  26763551 Nov 26 11:50 /usr/ports/INDEX-8
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  26665016 Nov 26 11:53 /usr/ports/INDEX-9
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   1654048 Nov 11 11:45 /usr/ports/INDEX-9.bz2
# portmaster -L | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install'	===>>> New version
available: java-zoneinfo-2012.j
	===>>> New version available: liberation-fonts-ttf-2.00.1,1
	===>>> New version available: libxul-10.0.11
	===>>> New version available: firefox-17.0,1
	===>>> New version available: libreoffice-3.5.7
	===>>> New version available: vigra-1.9.0
===>>> 545 total installed ports
	===>>> 6 have new versions available
# portmaster -L --index-only | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install'
	===>>> New version available: libreoffice-3.5.7
===>>> 545 total installed ports
	===>>> 1 has a new version available
# portmaster -L --index | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install'
	===>>> New version available: libreoffice-3.5.7
===>>> 545 total installed ports
	===>>> 1 has a new version available
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