On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 21:48:25 +0200, Kurt Jaeger stated: >Hi! > >> I just switched from using 'portsnap' to 'git'. I removed everything >> in the directory, then used 'git' to build it. That worked fine. I >> had to manually recreate the 'distfiles' directory, but I expected >> to have to do that. >> >> Now, if I run a 'make search' in the directory, I receive an error >> message that it needs the INDEX file. I ran "make index" and that >> seems to work alright. My question is, is that the best way to handle >> this? > >There's a make target fetchindex. > >So > >cd /usr/ports >make fetchindex > >fetches the index from some repo.
I realize that. I was wondering if there was a way to get 'git' to just download the latest INDEX file without having to go through all that extra effort? -- Jerry _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"