portsdb and portupgrade causes errors

[Mark Linimon]

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Michael C. Shultz wrote:

> Way back when, I used to get the INDEX when running cvsup unless
> I put it in the refuse file. Of coarse it was old and useless so one was 
> better off building their own INDEX.  So why cant we just receive the 
> INDEX like we used to, but unlike before, l have it updated as often as 
> is being done now?

Because the way we used to do it required tremendous churn in the
CVS repository.  And it was _still_ out of date.

The fact that you can't refuse it is a bug, and has been reported
to jdp.  In the meantime, a cron script that does something like a
fetch and then a copy is your best bet.

There's really quite a bit of email in the mailing list archives
about why this was done.  The short summary is that in the short
run there is some pain but in the long run this is a win for the
project, and the users.

mcl