Ports and Index
Peter Lageotakes
plageotakes at earthlink.net
Mon Dec 26 06:22:45 UTC 2005
Hello,
I am writing this email in regards to the following web page:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html
The specific section would be:
"Now create a database with the pkgdb -F command. This will read the
list of installed ports and create a database file in the /var/db/pkg
directory. Now when you run portupgrade -a, it will read this and the
ports INDEX file. Finally, portupgrade will begin to download, build,
backup, install, and clean the ports which have been updated.
portupgrade comes with a lot of options for different use cases, the
most important ones will be presented below."
If I am not mistaken (I could very well be mistaken); the index file
isn't download when CVS's is run. Either "make fetchindex" or "make
index" will create the index (I believe). Should a step be added to the
handbook? I may have misinterpreted the document; perhaps I should have
double checked with the mailing list. My apologies if I have used the
incorrect procedure.
Best regards,
Pete
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