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Date:      Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:49:50 -0800
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: make index
Message-ID:  <200501281049.50926.kstewart@owt.com>
In-Reply-To: <ef60af09050128103160b9a4bb@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <ef60af09050128101048545276@mail.gmail.com> <200501281026.33698.kstewart@owt.com> <ef60af09050128103160b9a4bb@mail.gmail.com>

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On Friday 28 January 2005 10:31 am, Gert Cuykens wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:26:33 -0800, Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> 
wrote:
> > On Friday 28 January 2005 10:10 am, Gert Cuykens wrote:
> > > why does make index don't work when you use a refuse file ?
> >
> > Think of a complex computer program that depends on a number of
> > modules. With the refuse, you have removed some modules that the
> > program needs to build a complete, new version. Since all you are
> > refusing is the structure files and patches, you really don't save
> > that much space.
> >
> > FWIW, if you use fetchindex to download a new INDEX, you don't have
> > to spend a lot of resources building a new index. I timed make
> > fetchindex and found the following.
> >
> > #time make fetchindex
> > INDEX.bz2                                     100% of  612 kB   83
> > kBps 0.976u 0.048s 0:08.87 11.3%     146+4723k 1+52io 0pf+0w
> >
> > The 8.87 seconds included the time required to download and unbzip2
> > INDEX.bz2 into INDEX.
> >
> > Kent
> >
> > --
> > Kent Stewart
> > Richland, WA
> >
> > http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
>
> the problem with downloading it is that it uses default settings for
> example if you put a index change in the make.conf

Yes, that is one of the side effects. I use 
sysutils/p5-FreeBSD-Portindex. As long as one of the major Makefiles 
don't change, you get a updated INDEX in just a few minutes. When it 
has to do a full cache update, it can take a while :).

Kent

-- 
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html



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