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Date:      Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:39:46 -0500
From:      Alec Berryman <alec@thened.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Correct Way to Update the Ports
Message-ID:  <20041201003946.GA11799@thened.net>
In-Reply-To: <20041130192959.CE16.GERARD-SEIBERT@rcn.com>
References:  <20041130192959.CE16.GERARD-SEIBERT@rcn.com>

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begin  quotation of Gerard Seibert on 2004-11-30 19:33:32 -0500:

> I am still not sure that I understand this entire ports concept. I,
> like others I would assume, have found the time that 'portsdb -Uu'
> takes to run to completion unacceptable.

You should run 'make fetchindex' before 'portsdb -Uu'; after a cvsup,
there's no index, so portupgrade calls for one to be made.  Much
faster to fetch the index.

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