ports/77246: update "make index" target to use "make fetchindex"...

[Charles Swiger]

>Number:         77246
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       update "make index" target to use "make fetchindex"...
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Feb 08 03:50:17 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Charles Swiger
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE i386
>Organization:
PKIx
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD ns1.pkix.net 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #0: Wed Jan 19 04:19:15 EST 2005 root at ns1.pkix.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NORMAL i386

>Description:

Doug Barton <DougB at FreeBSD.org> suggested a change to the "make index" target,
and this is based on that idea and additional discussion on the freebsd-ports
list.

>How-To-Repeat:

N/A.

>Fix:

--- /usr/ports/Makefile.orig       Mon Dec 20 13:21:54 2004
+++ /usr/ports/Makefile		   Mon Jan 31 19:29:39 2005
@@ -66,6 +66,22 @@
 .include <bsd.port.subdir.mk>

 index:
+	@${ECHO} 'Building the index file for the ports collection is a complex task, which'
+	@${ECHO} 'may take anywhere from several minutes to an hour or longer to complete.'
+	@${ECHO} 'If you do not have a complete, up-to-date ports collection, building the'
+	@${ECHO} 'index will fail.  Please be sure you are not using a cvsup refuse file.'
+	@${ECHO} ''
+	@${ECHO} 'If are certain you want to build your own index, hit Cntl-C now and use:'
+	@${ECHO} ''
+	@${ECHO} '     make buildindex'
+	@${ECHO} ''
+	@${ECHO} '...instead.  However, most users prefer to use "make fetchindex", which'
+	@${ECHO} 'will download the latest working version of the index (~600K).'
+	@${ECHO} ''
+	@sleep 3
+	make fetchindex
+
+buildindex:
	@rm -f ${.CURDIR}/${INDEXFILE}
	@cd ${.CURDIR} && make ${.CURDIR}/${INDEXFILE}

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