When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

Tim Daneliuk tundra at tundraware.com
Mon Nov 26 12:47:26 UTC 2012


On 11/25/2012 11:17 PM, Warren Block wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>
>> On 25/11/2012 23:10, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>>> After the recent security scare, I know the ports tree was temporarily
>>> frozen.  Does anyone know when it will again be updates.  I just upgraded
>>> to 9.1-PRE and need to rebuild Firefox & Thunderbird against the new
>>> libraries and ... they're broken, marked as security hazards...
>>
>> It's been being updated normally since near enough a week ago.
>> "Normally" means subject to the pre-9.1-RELEASE restrictions on sweeping
>> changes as is usual at this point in a release cycle.
>>
>> FireFox 17 and Thunderbird 17 updates were committed to ports on 20th
>> November.
>
> Hmm.  Is the index file being rebuilt?  With FF16 installed, and 17 in the port directory, portsdb -Fu && portversion -vl'<' shows nothing to update.
>
> After 'make index', it does show.

The problem was that I was missing the 'fetch' verb in my portsnap command.

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