On Sun, 03 Aug 2014 16:27:36 -0400
Naram Qashat <cyberb...@cyberbotx.com> wrote:

> On 08/03/14 15:53, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > On 03/08/2014 20:34, Naram Qashat wrote:
> >> Well, I've been using the command line arguments of "-voL '='", and
> >> looking at the man page for pkg-version, as far as I can tell, it
> >> shouldn't be downloading INDEX, since I do have INDEX-9 on my
> >> system.
> >
> > pkg(8) doesn't download or attempt to build an INDEX at all.  It
> > can use one if one happens to be already available, but not
> > otherwise.
> >
> >     Cheers,
> >
> >     Matthew
> 
> I'm at a bit of a loss, then. While I can't say for sure if pkg is
> doing something unintended, there seems to be something on my system
> that is downloading INDEX without my knowledge.
> 
> My usual way of updating my INDEX is using p5-FreeBSD-Portindex to
> generate the INDEX file, and using that INDEX to update the files
> that portupgrade uses. I run that manually, so I have nothing that
> would do that for me automatically, to my knowledge.

How do you update the ports tree, with portsnap or with svn? Portnap
also updates the index.

Bye,
Alexander.

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