Kopete 7.3

[Oliver Eikemeier]

Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 12:02:17PM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote:
> 
>>>I always do a "make index" in the /usr/ports directory. Have I been
>>>doing it wrong?
>>
>>No, I also use make index because historically there were significantly 
>>fewer error messages. I think someone almost got hysterical from 
>>surprise a short time ago when portsdb -U completed with out a single 
>>message. 
>>
>>My attitude is that if Kris' script ran portsdb -U, then I would use it 
>>everytime I cvsup ports-all instead of using make index.
> 
> AFAIK portsdb -U just calls 'make index' internally.  The difference
> would then presumably be caused by the make environment: my index
> build tests simulate a clean environment by defining LOCALBASE,
> X11BASE, etc.

Not really. portsdb -U calls portsdb.update, which is defined in
  /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/portsdb.rb under 'def update'
and calls
  /usr/local/sbin/make_describe_pass1
  /usr/local/sbin/make_describe_pass2
  /usr/ports/Tools/make_index

But I guess knu is the expert here...