On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Naram Qashat <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 08/03/14 15:53, Matthew Seaman wrote: > >> On 03/08/2014 20:34, Naram Qashat wrote: >> >>> Well, I've been using the command line arguments of "-voL '='", and >>> looking at the man page for pkg-version, as far as I can tell, it >>> shouldn't be downloading INDEX, since I do have INDEX-9 on my system. >>> >> >> pkg(8) doesn't download or attempt to build an INDEX at all. It can use >> one if one happens to be already available, but not otherwise. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Matthew >> > > I'm at a bit of a loss, then. While I can't say for sure if pkg is doing > something unintended, there seems to be something on my system that is > downloading INDEX without my knowledge. > > My usual way of updating my INDEX is using p5-FreeBSD-Portindex to > generate the INDEX file, and using that INDEX to update the files that > portupgrade uses. I run that manually, so I have nothing that would do that > for me automatically, to my knowledge. > > > Thanks, > Naram Qasha > Are you doing anything between building the index and running "pkg version"? I can tell you that portmaster will download the "latest" index unless you use the --no-index-fetch option. I don't know about other tools, but it caught me by surpize. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
