Missing INDEX file in Ports.
Julien Gabel
jpeg at thilelli.net
Fri Jan 28 10:48:38 PST 2005
>> 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.
> Yeah, I totally agree, INDEX should be included in ports.tar.gz for at
> least RELEASES.
Included or not, the release is self contained (and don't require an
internet in that case) since the INDEX or INDEX-5 file can always be
generated from the local ports tree, via :
# cd /usr/ports; make index
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