On Mon, 26 Nov 2012, Tim Daneliuk wrote:

On 11/26/2012 11:37 AM, jb wrote:
jb <jb.1234abcd <at> gmail.com> writes:

>...
> > ># portsnap fetch extract
> > ># ls -al /usr/ports/IN*
> > >-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  26879597 Nov 26 15:37 /usr/ports/INDEX-7
> > >-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  26763600 Nov 26 15:38 /usr/ports/INDEX-8
> > >-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  26744834 Nov 26 15:38 /usr/ports/INDEX-9
> > >-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1654048 Nov 11 11:45 /usr/ports/INDEX-9.bz2
One detail.
The size of /usr/ports/INDEX-9 is 26744834.



<SNIP>

One wonders if using svn to keep the ports tree up-to-date might not be
simpler, and perhaps, more reliable ...

Yes, but the index file is not part of the svn repository. Normally it is built periodically on the server, but something seems to be holding that up, at least for INDEX-9.bz2. It can be downloaded with 'make fetchindex', or built in place with 'make index' (slow--I think Mr. Seaman has a Perl version that's probably much faster). portsnap appears to be getting an updated version, but fetchindex is not.

INDEX-7 and INDEX-8 are leftovers from previous versions of the operating system. More specifically, from when that ports tree was running on an earlier OS version on that system. They can be deleted.
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