MacPorts 1.9 and portindex generation

[Joshua Root]

On 2010-6-10 15:53 , Perry Lee wrote:
> On Jun 9, 2010, at 10:49 PM, Perry Lee wrote:
> 
>> On Jun 9, 2010, at 10:34 PM, Eric Hall wrote:
>>
>>> 	What about for those who up their ports via svn?  Will the platform
>>> specific indexes be checked in, or do we need to add a portindex build
>>> step to our workflows?
>>
>> `port sync` takes care of that for you; it creates/updates the port index after svn update.
> 
> Err... scratch this; I misread the question and thought you were talking about on local machine.

Your answer is still basically correct though. :-) The PortIndex doesn't
live in svn any more, and its existence on the rsync server is really
just a performance optimisation for people who sync infrequently.

- Josh