Re: searching ports doesn work
From: Tim Holmes (tim_at_unixtechs.org)
Date: 08/21/05
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Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 22:40:51 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
I think you did what I did. and it does take a while. There's a
much easier and faster way to do this if you're online. I wasn't
at the time, so I had to build it manually.
When you do the make search key"blah" and there isn't a /usr/ports/INDEX5
it builds one. I ~think~ it basically looks at all packages finds out info
about it, and then builds the index. However if you download it, it's faster.
make fetchindex
Do that in /usr/ports and it will download the INDEX5, put it in /usr/ports
and now when you type make seach key="blah" it will have that to search.
I think it took my PII 400 36 hours to build it's INDEX5. Poor machine.
tdh
| Hi folks,
|
| well, I have just installed freebsd 4.11 . Then, I read through the
| freebsd handbook.
|
| http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-finding-applications.html
|
| the siete above explains how to search for ports. So, I went to
| /usr/ports and did make search lsof
|
| I get a notcie that says something of generating INDEX, please
| wait.....
|
| And I waited, and waited..........an well. After 3 cups of coffee I
| had 2 problems. First, I was toxicated with coffee *G* and my little
| bsd still said:...Pleas wait.
|
| running top showed me that the shell running make was waiting
| ...............but waiting for what?
|
| Well, I then kille the process and tried again, without any luck.
|
| Can anyone help me with this issue? I would like to know, why this
| does not work or what I maybe did wrong.
|
| --
| Thank you
| Marcel Lautenbach
| mailto:jeansen@gmail.com
|
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