portindex/portindexdb

kstewart kstewart at owt.com
Fri Sep 3 19:25:58 PDT 2004


On Thursday 02 September 2004 06:17 am, Lucas Holt wrote:
> After seeing several posts recently on portindex, I decided to try it
> out.  Most of the posts claimed you had to run portsdb -u after
> portindex.
>
> Is it safe to use portindexdb instead of portsdb -u?
>
> Another words I want to do this:
> cvsup ...
> portindex
> portindexdb
> portversion -v | grep "<"
>
> Lucas Holt

FWIW, portindexdb will generate INDEX-5.db just fine on 5-current. It doesn't 
have the problem with ruby bus erroring like portsdb -u does.

Kent

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