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Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 14:27:18 -0600
From: Joshua Lokken <joshua.lokken@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Question about PORTUPDATE
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On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 22:06:54 +0200, George Katsanos
<georgek@intense-illusions.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have installed FREEBSD 5.3 some days ago , and while i was reading the
> handbook , i followed some instructions of it , and did the following things:
> 
> installed CVSup to update my port collection , and then
> created a db of the ports with pkgdb -F command.
> 
> scaned my ports with portaudit and got 11 results,for various packages.
> 
> I decided to update these packages with portupdate.
> 
> i typed : su-2.05b# portupgrade kdegraphics-3.3.0 -r
> And i got :
> Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..
> 
> i Was waiting and waiting and waiting,but in vain.after 1 hour,nothing.
> I run bsd on a P3550,128mb ram,hdd 20gb.
>
> So , it is logical to wait THAT long for the INDEX.TMP file to be created or
> it isn't my fault?..Waiting for your reply

It appears that most folks are using 'make fetchindex' now to
get an up-to-date index.

-- 
Joshua Lokken
Open Source Advocate