On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:42:11 +1000 John Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, 22:42 +0200, Morgan Wesstr?m wrote: > > Is there a preferred way to update the > > ports source tree and create the index through crontab? > > If your system is configured to use csup (or cvsup) to update your > ports tree to the latest (ports-all tag=.), then you can fetch a > pre-built index with "make fetchindex". > > portsnap(8) updates the INDEX as well as the ports tree by default and > might be a better solution for you. Just that, in both cases one gets the default INDEX, as build for default OPTIONS/KNOBS/... for all ports, hence it probably differs from the one you'll generate locally. As a suggestion for the OP: ports-mgmt/p5-FreeBSD-Portindex -- IOnut - Un^d^dregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" "Intellectual Property" is nowhere near as valuable as "Intellect" FreeBSD committer -> [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP Key ID 057E9F8B493A297B
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