Proper way to update ports with svn

Damien Fleuriot ml at my.gd
Sat Mar 30 01:52:43 UTC 2013


On 29 March 2013 22:29, Andre Goree <andre at drenet.info> wrote:

> I seem to have to run 'make index' in /usr/ports after I've run 'svn up
> /usr/ports' in order to see which ports need to be updated using
> 'portversion'.  This doesn't seem correct...and if so portsnap would
> seem like a much better tool.  Perhaps I should be running 'make
> fetchindex' instead?  I'm sure I've read about the correct way to do so,
> but it doesn't appear to be here:
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsSubversionPrimer
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
>

'make index' looks good to me, it's the right way to do things imo.

What bothers you, following 'make index', pkg version output seems dodgy ?


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