portupgrade after cvsup always rebuilds /usr/ports/INDEX

[evenson at panix.com (Mark Evenson)]

Alec Berryman <alec_(_at_)_thened_(_dot_)_net> writes:

> begin  quotation of Mark Evenson on 2004-11-16 10:34:58 -0500:
> 
> > After running a cvsup of /usr/ports, portupgrade now always rebuilds the
> > /usr/ports/INDEX file which takes a *long* time.  
[...]
> 
> Yes.  This has been discussed at length recently on this list.  'make
> fetchindex' has been updated; you might want to take a look at using
> that.

Indeed.  Thanks for the pointer.  

I did look at the last week or so via the subject headers, via Thunderbird
searching the news.gmane.org archives via a supposed "Full Text" search,
and via "Classic " Google without success. Odd that.


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