From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 5 20:47:59 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18F5837B401 for ; Mon, 5 May 2003 20:47:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E8FD43F75 for ; Mon, 5 May 2003 20:47:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.11.6p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h463lrV13817; Mon, 5 May 2003 20:47:53 -0700 From: Kent Stewart To: Rob Lahaye , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 20:47:52 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <3EB6F33E.3040108@users.sourceforge.net> <2147483647.1052171822@[192.168.1.32]> <3EB72747.9000104@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <3EB72747.9000104@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305052047.52989.kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: portupgrade: installed package "succeeds port" ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 03:47:59 -0000 On Monday 05 May 2003 08:08 pm, Rob Lahaye wrote: > Jim Trigg wrote: > > Actually, I've found that "cd /usr/ports; make index" is more > > reliable than "portsdb -U". > > Are you sure? "make index" runs for ever here! > On a 700 MHz Pentium III PC, it's already running for over an hour, > without any indication of doing something useful. The > /usr/ports/INDEX file has still size 0. It takes as much as 50% longer than -U. On my AMD 2000+ XP, it runs on the order of 15-20 minutes. I also don't run it when my mirror is being updated :). There are times when "make index" is broken and you have to use "portsdb -U". The inverse is also true. I have ended up using make index because Kris has a script that appears to run every 2 hours and tells the ports people when make index is broken. There isn't anything similar for portsdb -U. > > portsdb -U also lasts for a long while, but at least finishes at some > point :). > > Or have I broken anything in the ports administration? > But what else is there than the INDEX file? You also need INDEX.db if you want to use portupgrade and tools. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html