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Subject: Re: portsdb -Uu hung
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Alex Zbyslaw wrote:

> Are you *sure* it's hung?  -U does a "make index" in /usr/ports which 
> takes *forever* as it has to run a make command in *every single port*.
> If you've just updated your ports tree with cvsup then consider 
> running "make fetchindex" from /usr/ports which just grabs the latest 
> pre-built version and then just doing "portsdb -u", though anything 
> that needs the .db file to be up-to-date will do this automatically.

Just seen that portsdb -F will fetch the index and the man page even 
recommends running portsdb -Fu (not -Uu) after a cvsup.

If -Fu still hangs for you, then you really do have a problem.

--Alex