RE: Missing INDEX file in Ports.
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Julien Gabel Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 1:39 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports. 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 So can many of the utilities - like perl and X - that are now supplied as binaries. I guess you want to go back to the 386BSD days when you had to build all those things yourself. I think you deserve to have your FreeBSD taken away for a month and be forced to run Solaris 2.5.1. That will teach you to smart off about being able to generate things. How would you like a Sendmail upgrade to take 2 hours, eh? Or let's see even better - how about bootstrapping a usable version of gcc on a SunOS box? Been there, done that. We don't want to go back to those days. There's a reason that precompiled and pregenerated stuff is included in the UNIX distributions. Neither Disk 1's require KDE or GNOME to be generated from the sources, either. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Missing INDEX file in Ports
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kris Kennaway Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 8:51 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Michael C. Shultz Subject: Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 03:34:46AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: INDEX has been included with every CDROM pressing of FreeBSD 4.x previously. And this will be the last 4.X pressing. So, it must have required a really severe space crunch to justify this significant of a deviation. It was probably just forgotten. Talk to the release engineers. Yes, that is my feeling as well. Glad to see your not using some silly justification to explain that it was deliberately left out. :-) My intent on the initial post was to find out if others were seeing the same thing. Since they are, it's time to e-mail the release people. Unfortunately, though, from the looks of the docs coming out of them, there's little interest in the release team on the 4.xx line anymore so this is probably an exercise in futility. Unfortunately the disappointing thing is that the 3.X release had the same kind of thing happen. The very last 3.X release of FreeBSD had several broken things - notably ESDI support, bad144 no longer worked, even when a few revs earlier it was working fine. Now we are seeing the same thing with 4.11 - a niggly problem that marrs the normally perfect release. I am concerned that if something like INDEX was forgotten, that there's going to be other things forgotten as well. Sigh. We really must learn when to quit on these release trains. 4.10 was a perfect cap on a successful 4.x run. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Missing INDEX file in Ports.
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. 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 So can many of the utilities - like perl and X - that are now supplied as binaries. Not self-contained on the disk1. I said 'make index', not 'make fetchindex'. The case of packages themselves are another thing, i think. I tend to think that this file was forgotten during the release's process (but i don't know), i just want to point the fact that it can be self-generated without a network connection. Nothing more. I guess you want to go back to the 386BSD days when you had to build all those things yourself. I think you deserve to have your FreeBSD taken away for a month and be forced to run Solaris 2.5.1. That will teach you to smart off about being able to generate things. How would you like a Sendmail upgrade to take 2 hours, eh? Or let's see even better - how about bootstrapping a usable version of gcc on a SunOS box? Been there, done that. We don't want to go back to those days. There's a reason that precompiled and pregenerated stuff is included in the UNIX distributions. Neither Disk 1's require KDE or GNOME to be generated from the sources, either. Nothing wrong here, however that was not my point in this post. -- -jpeg. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Missing INDEX file in Ports
-Original Message- From: Kent Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:34 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports On Thursday 27 January 2005 11:30 pm, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kent Stewart Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:19 PM To: freebsd-questions@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. 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 Now, notice down there: Final package build starts Note any ACTUAL date? Obviously whomever was supposed to do the ports stuff for the release didn't follow the procedure exactly correctly, they probably cvsupped the ports at the last minute and forgot to fetch the INDEX, same as they forgot to update the release schedule. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jan 28, 2005, at 3:28 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: Kent Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:34 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports On Thursday 27 January 2005 11:30 pm, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kent Stewart Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:19 PM To: freebsd-questions@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. 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 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFB+fo2n4uqfTwEb9YRAkenAJ0Uz7D2qj+tUCRWZ6K/LMDgnor2ywCfdU0Z BVEQdVp4IWS28VtCM51dVLM= =b0IC -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports
On Friday 28 January 2005 12:39 am, Michael Johnson wrote: On Jan 28, 2005, at 3:28 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: Kent Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:34 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports On Thursday 27 January 2005 11:30 pm, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kent Stewart Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:19 PM To: freebsd-questions@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. 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 Won't make index work on the release CDs? Maybe they needed the space for something else? -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jan 28, 2005, at 5:36 AM, Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Friday 28 January 2005 12:39 am, Michael Johnson wrote: On Jan 28, 2005, at 3:28 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: Kent Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:34 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports On Thursday 27 January 2005 11:30 pm, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kent Stewart Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:19 PM To: freebsd-questions@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. 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 Won't make index work on the release CDs? Maybe they needed the space for something else? yeah, but including it would be easier for alot of people. Especially people who are using a slower computer. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFB+hmjn4uqfTwEb9YRAg2ZAJ9v8AJeDszzs8MJ7HkvDMqlKRJq/gCdELPv XR2fCyZjoeMRgW4a+QRAWFg= =5gju -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports
On Friday 28 January 2005 02:53 am, Michael Johnson wrote: On Jan 28, 2005, at 5:36 AM, Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Friday 28 January 2005 12:39 am, Michael Johnson wrote: On Jan 28, 2005, at 3:28 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: Kent Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:34 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports On Thursday 27 January 2005 11:30 pm, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kent Stewart Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:19 PM To: freebsd-questions@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. 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 Won't make index work on the release CDs? Maybe they needed the space for something else? yeah, but including it would be easier for alot of people. Especially people who are using a slower computer. I agree make index is no fun on a slow computer, but if space is a problem is it really a good idea to put generated files on the CD? -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Missing INDEX file in Ports
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael C. Shultz Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 3:16 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports yeah, but including it would be easier for alot of people. Especially people who are using a slower computer. I agree make index is no fun on a slow computer, but if space is a problem is it really a good idea to put generated files on the CD? INDEX has been included with every CDROM pressing of FreeBSD 4.x previously. And this will be the last 4.X pressing. So, it must have required a really severe space crunch to justify this significant of a deviation. Now, lets's see here: Disc 1 of FreeBSD 4.11 KDE is 647MB Disc 1 of FreeBSD 4.11 Gnome is 576MB The INDEX file is 6MB A cdrom holds 660-700MB of data And I won't even go into the thousands of dollars of network costs involved in fetching a 6Mb index file over the Internet for everyone that could have been included on the CD. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports
On Friday 28 January 2005 03:34 am, you wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael C. Shultz Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 3:16 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports yeah, but including it would be easier for alot of people. Especially people who are using a slower computer. I agree make index is no fun on a slow computer, but if space is a problem is it really a good idea to put generated files on the CD? INDEX has been included with every CDROM pressing of FreeBSD 4.x previously. And this will be the last 4.X pressing. So, it must have required a really severe space crunch to justify this significant of a deviation. Now, lets's see here: Disc 1 of FreeBSD 4.11 KDE is 647MB Disc 1 of FreeBSD 4.11 Gnome is 576MB The INDEX file is 6MB A cdrom holds 660-700MB of data And I won't even go into the thousands of dollars of network costs involved in fetching a 6Mb index file over the Internet for everyone that could have been included on the CD. Ted I'm out of excuses after seeing the numbers you posted. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 03:34:46AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: INDEX has been included with every CDROM pressing of FreeBSD 4.x previously. And this will be the last 4.X pressing. So, it must have required a really severe space crunch to justify this significant of a deviation. It was probably just forgotten. Talk to the release engineers. Kris pgpa7NJeJYlkI.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports.
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 -- -jpeg. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Missing INDEX file in Ports
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? Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jan 28, 2005, at 2:00 AM, 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? it was removed a few months ago, use 'make fetchindex' Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFB+eNon4uqfTwEb9YRAkUmAJwPk2wXWqRdscvjCsNSkhdj+JF93gCfd19s u/5gY1PbwnTf3DSXt/T/JwI= =vMN/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Missing INDEX file in Ports
-Original Message- From: Michael Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:02 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports Has anyone else noticed the INDEX file is missing in the 4.11-RELEASE ports directory? it was removed a few months ago, use 'make fetchindex' Thanks, I had thought it might have been because I installed the ports afterwards rather than during the install, and a script bit it somewhere. Probably this should go into the README file in the ports dir. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 :). Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Missing INDEX file in Ports
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kent Stewart Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:19 PM To: freebsd-questions@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. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports
On Thursday 27 January 2005 11:30 pm, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kent Stewart Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:19 PM To: freebsd-questions@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. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 11:07:33PM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: Michael Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:02 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports Has anyone else noticed the INDEX file is missing in the 4.11-RELEASE ports directory? it was removed a few months ago, use 'make fetchindex' Thanks, I had thought it might have been because I installed the ports afterwards rather than during the install, and a script bit it somewhere. Probably this should go into the README file in the ports dir. It's already in the UPDATING file. Kris pgpTAATgRkWLU.pgp Description: PGP signature
