Missing INDEX file in Ports

[Michael Johnson]

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On Jan 28, 2005, at 3:28 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kent Stewart [mailto:kstewart at owt.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:34 PM
>> To: Ted Mittelstaedt
>> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> Subject: Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports
>>
>>
>> On Thursday 27 January 2005 11:30 pm, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>>>> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Kent
>>>> Stewart Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:19 PM
>>>> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>>>> Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt
>>>> Subject: Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday 27 January 2005 11:00 pm, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>>   Has anyone seen this before, I just installed 4.11 and in
>>>>> /usr/ports typed make search key="ghostscript" and the machine
>>>>> went away for a couple hours to generate an INDEX file.  (this is
>>>>> a P75, unfortunately)
>>>>>
>>>>>   Has anyone else noticed the INDEX file is missing in the
>>>>> 4.11-RELEASE ports directory?
>>>>
>>>> If you cvsup ports-all, INDEX[-56] is deleted. You want to
>>>> cd /usr/ports
>>>> make fetchindex
>>>>
>>>> The fetch of a compressed file is much faster than generating it
>>>> :).
>>>
>>> Even faster would have been for it to be on the same CDROM that the
>>> rest of the ports directories were copied from.
>>>
>>
>> You would have to go to the cvsweb.cgi attic to find out how
>> many months
>> it has been removed from ports.
>>
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> Do you really think I care how long it's been removed?
>
> Your missing the point.  INDEX is supposed to be in the RELEASES
> on the CDROMs because the CD's are supposed to be self-contained,
> ie: you should not require an Internet connection to get a complete
> install.  Otherwise there's no point in even bothering to release
> the CDROMS in the first place.
>
> INDEX isn't in SNAPS and such because it makes no sense generating
> it for a ports tree that's open for committing since new ports could
> be added at any time.  However the ports tree on the CDROM is static,
> not dynamic.
>
> Please note the following:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.11R/schedule.html
>

Yeah, I totally agree, INDEX should be included in ports.tar.gz for at 
least RELEASES.

Michael
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