From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Oct 19 13:42:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C899737B401 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 13:42:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B69F43E91 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 13:42:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA01186; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 13:39:21 -0700 Message-ID: <3DB1C2F9.3000904@owt.com> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 13:39:21 -0700 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: alane@geeksrus.net, Kris Kennaway , "Clark C. Evans" , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/ports/INDEX update policy? 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 You have a choice, i.e., an almost always out of date INDEX or a port structure that you can use to build a current INDEX.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