On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:27, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > Because the way we used to do it required tremendous churn in the > > CVS repository. And it was _still_ out of date. > > We in user land don't see that end of things :) Why does INDEX have to > go into the CVS repository anyways? Guess that is why you all changed > things around?
INDEX has to go into CVS if you want cvsup to see it. > It's really not a bother, and with DSL it takes like 30 seconds to > download it, but as I'm sure you can see many new users are getting > tripped up by the change because now there is this extra make > fetchindex step. Yes, I help quite a number of newbies with this issue.. 'make index' looks like it's DoS'ing your PC :) > I really think making the INDEX files into a port would be the best > solution because every one understands ports and it could easily be > done without creating churn on the CVS repository, just don't > use a distinfo file and then you could update the source tarball at will > without bothering anybody. It's a bit hard to portupgrade a piece of the ports framework. I think a simple announcment saying the recommended solution is changing your port cvsup script to (say).. cvsup -h .. cd /usr/ports && make fetchindex -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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