make command to fetch a new index

Julian D. Seifert alamar at alamar.org
Sun Aug 8 12:56:35 PDT 2004


On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 10:23:29 -0400
Gerard Seibert <gerard-seibert at rcn.com> wrote:

> I thought I saw a tip in this newsgroup awhile ago about using 'make'
> to fetch a fresh copy of the index file. I cannot remember what the
> exact syntax was for the command. I thought it was 'make fetch_index',
> however that does not work correctly. Would someone be so kind as to
> refresh my memory on this?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Gerard E. Seibert
> gerard-seibert at rcn.com
> 
> I never make mistakes. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.
> 
> 	Anonymous
> 
> 
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sometimes grep is very helpfull ;)

cd /usr/ports/ && grep -ie fetch Makefile

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