Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 13:39:21 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: alane@geeksrus.net, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, "Clark C. Evans" <cce@clarkevans.com>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/ports/INDEX update policy? Message-ID: <3DB1C2F9.3000904@owt.com> References: <20021015045004.GA38128@doublegemini.com> <20021015044705.GA53098@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <20021015045802.GA38168@doublegemini.com> <20021015045938.GA62784@xor.obsecurity.org> <3DABA6AD.8080104@owt.com> <20021015053053.GA43076@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <p05111705b9d76a2c80d9@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 1:30 AM -0400 10/15/02, AlanE wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:25:01PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: >> >>> I actually have ports/INDEX in my ports-all refuse file. That makes >>> the cvsup update of ports go a lot faster. I run "portsdb -uU" when I >>> finish the cvsup and this takes less time. >> >> >> Thanks. That's a damn good idea. > > > I ran into trouble building the INDEX (locally, on my machine) because > I refuse large sections of the ports tree (japanese, korean, chinese, > biology, astro, games, etc...). I'm not sure if that still happens, > as I haven't tried it in the past two months. > I imagine that it still does. A du -h of chinese is 2.5MB. I cvsup the whole port structure and choose not to install some. You have a choice, i.e., an almost always out of date INDEX or a port structure that you can use to build a current INDEX. The choice is always yours. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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