On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 3:40 PM, LuKreme <krem...@kreme.com> wrote: > On 06-Mar-10 05:07, RW wrote: >> portversion get its version information from the index file. You need >> to do a "make fetchindex" in the ports directory (or "make index" if you >> have a lot of time on your hands). > > Thanks for that, I am planning on upgrading that machine soon anyway, so > best to get all this ports stuff squared away first.
Semi-OT, but portsnap(8) makes fetching the ports indexes no longer necessary. portsnap is also orders of magnitude faster than cvsup/csup, as it only sends diffs from the previously downloaded snap, and those diffs are precalculated. It was written by Colin Percival, the FreeBSD Security Officer, and so it is also quite reliable. It's been part of the base OS since 6.2 or so. If you're not using it, I highly recommend it. Royce
