Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 19:40:35 -0600 From: Gunter Wambaugh <gunter@thewambaughs.net> To: Jason Henson <jason@ec.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portversion runs seemingly forever Message-ID: <c7c3ca6662bc6526ae379fe990677274@thewambaughs.net> In-Reply-To: <1109121955l.93160l.0l@BARTON> References: <b346c27a58657e78a0d7301b2bcd23c4@thewambaughs.net> <1109121955l.93160l.0l@BARTON>
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On Feb 22, 2005, at 7:25 PM, Jason Henson wrote: > On 02/22/05 19:21:43, Gunter Wambaugh wrote: >> When I try >> $ portversion -L = >> it seems to run forever. >> top yields >> PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU >> COMMAND >> 51331 root 51 0 19276K 18852K RUN 0:09 90.60% 32.86% >> ruby18 >> I have tried portsdb -uU && pkgdb -uv, to no avail. >> bash-2.05b# uname -a >> FreeBSD test.thewambaughs.net 4.9-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #0: Mon >> Oct 27 17:51:09 GMT 2003 >> root@freebsd-stable.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 >> Any ideas? >> > > > Does portversion use the index file? If so I thought you had to cd > /usr/src && make fetchindex, maybe after a cvsup. Also I seem to > remember using portversion -l "<" when I used to use it a while back. > To find the old ports. > > Just read the man page online, -L is a inverse limit, it excludes. So > if you have not cvsuped since you last upgraded that would be why you > get nothing. You say it seems to run forever, have you let it finish > or do you kill it? After you do the pkgdb -uv does it still take > forever to finish, or does it seem to just hang? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Sorry, I guess I should have been clearer. I let portversion run for 12+ hours before I killed it. I just cvsuped the ports tree a few days ago, and make fetchindex didn't help me any. portversion -l = says give me the 'up-to-date' ports. portversion -L = says give me all the 'out-of-date' ports.
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