Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:42:10 +0000 (UTC) From: jb <jb.1234abcd@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmaster options Message-ID: <loom.20121012T153839-52@post.gmane.org> References: <loom.20121012T063245-859@post.gmane.org> <20121012143100.1e470f79@gumby.homeunix.com>
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RW <rwmaillists <at> googlemail.com> writes: > > On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 04:35:43 +0000 (UTC) > jb wrote: > > > Hi, > > what is the diff between > > --index > > and > > --index-only > > From a *very* quick look, it appears that --index-only means don't use > the the port-directory at all, so that the index file is downloaded > into /tmp, and some checks and optimizations are skipped or done > less efficiently. > ... # ls -al /usr/ports/ ... -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26881412 Oct 12 07:47 INDEX-7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26765446 Oct 12 07:47 INDEX-8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26715339 Oct 12 13:28 INDEX-9 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1658547 Oct 12 12:01 INDEX-9.bz2 ... # # find /tmp -name "*INDEX*" # portmaster -L --index-only | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install' ===>>> New version available: smartmontools-5.43_1 ===>>> 618 total installed ports ===>>> 1 has a new version available # find /tmp -name "*INDEX*" Nope :-) jb
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