When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

[jb]

Fleuriot Damien <ml <at> my.gd> writes:

> 
> I don't get what you're trying to show here.
> 
> What commands you've run indicate that:
> 
> 1/ you have an up to date ports tree
> 2/ one of the installed ports needs to be updated

Follow me below.

> > ...
> > # portsnap fetch extract
> > # ls -al /usr/ports/IN*
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  26879597 Nov 26 15:37 /usr/ports/INDEX-7
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  26763600 Nov 26 15:38 /usr/ports/INDEX-8
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  26744834 Nov 26 15:38 /usr/ports/INDEX-9
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   1654048 Nov 11 11:45 /usr/ports/INDEX-9.bz2
> > # portsnap fetch update
> > Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 6 mirrors found.
> > Fetching snapshot tag from ec2-eu-west-1.portsnap.freebsd.org... done.
> > Latest snapshot on server matches what we already have.
> > No updates needed.
> > Ports tree is already up to date.
> > #
> > 
> > This fixed it.

When I said this fixed it, I meant the all three entries
# portmaster -L | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install'
# portmaster -L --index | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install'
# portmaster -L --index-only | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install'
showed the same output:
        ===>>> 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
#

This is the same /usr/ports repo arrived at via two methods that are valid.
Do you follow me ?

> > 
> > But, let's see what happens with this test:
> > 
> > # rm -rf  /usr/ports/
> > # portsnap extract
> > # ls -al /usr/ports/IN*
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  26879563 Nov 26 16:07 /usr/ports/INDEX-7
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  26763566 Nov 26 16:07 /usr/ports/INDEX-8
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  26744800 Nov 26 16:07 /usr/ports/INDEX-9
> > # 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 | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install'
> > /tmp/d-78227-index/INDEX-9.bz2                100% of 1615 kB  176 kBps
> > 00m00s
> >        ===>>> New version available: libreoffice-3.5.7
> > ===>>> 545 total installed ports
> >        ===>>> 1 has a new version 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
> > # ls -al /usr/ports/IN*
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  26879563 Nov 26 16:07 /usr/ports/INDEX-7
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  26763566 Nov 26 16:07 /usr/ports/INDEX-8
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  26665016 Nov 26 16:12 /usr/ports/INDEX-9
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   1654048 Nov 11 11:45 /usr/ports/INDEX-9.bz2
> > # portsnap update
> > Ports tree is already up to date.
> > #
> > 
> > Well, what do you say about this ?
> > jb

jb