On 08/03/14 21:24, Kevin Oberman wrote:
On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Naram Qashat <[email protected] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]>
I'm not. In fact, I rebuilt the INDEX and did 'pkg version' and it didn't change INDEX, which is correct from what Matthew said. But I left the system alone and then, without having run any other commands, checked the timestamp of INDEX-9 again. It was changed, despite having not done anything in between. If there is a way to find out when any process is attempting to modify a file, that would probably help me narrow it down, but I'm not aware of anything that can do that, so if anyone does know, that would be helpful. I had tried to check my /var/log/all.log for anything but the only thing that even happened around the time when INDEX-9 got changed was Postfix's anvil being called, which I doubt would've caused the INDEX-9 to be downloaded.
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