On Fri 2006-05-12 (07:31), Jonathan Noack wrote: > Ah, I made a mistake in my explanation. Replace INDEX-5.db with > INDEX-5. Sorry for the confusion... > > "make fetchindex" downloads the INDEX-x file (where 'x' is the major > release number of the version of FreeBSD you are using -- in this case > '5'). When this file is newer than INDEX-x.db, the portupgrade tools > will automatically build an updated version of INDEX-x.db. As such, it > is not necessary to do anything further than "make fetchindex". > Building INDEX-x takes forever (and may be overheating your machine > causing freezes/reboots), but building INDEX-x.db is quite fast. > > If you want to make sure everything is updated with a single command, > replace the '-U' with '-F' for "portsdb -Fu" (hehe -- I love it when > arguments work out like that...). That will 1) download the INDEX-x > file instead of building it from scratch, and then 2) build an updated > INDEX-x.db. > > Correction: portsnap automatically builds an up-to-date INDEX-x, not > INDEX-5.db. "portversion" is building the INDEX-x.db file from INDEX-x.
ah ok, thanx that's much clearer now. so for interest's sake: 'portsdb -F' is the same as 'make fetchindex', and 'portsdb -u' is the same as the first part of 'portversion' right? _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
