Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 22:25:01 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: "Clark C. Evans" <cce@clarkevans.com>, AlanE <alane@geeksrus.net>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/ports/INDEX update policy? Message-ID: <3DABA6AD.8080104@owt.com> References: <20021015045004.GA38128@doublegemini.com> <20021015044705.GA53098@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <20021015045802.GA38168@doublegemini.com> <20021015045938.GA62784@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 04:58:02AM +0000, Clark C. Evans wrote: > >>On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 12:47:05AM -0400, AlanE wrote: >>| Just run 'portsdb -U' and sit back and wait an hour. >> >>Ahh. I did a "make index" and it seems to be chugging >>along. This works for me; but I'm curious if it is >>the norm for the INDEX in the cvsup to be out-of-date? > > > Yes; if we updated the INDEX with every commit there would be hundreds > or sometimes thousands of updates per week. It's regenerated every 2 > weeks or so (more or less, depending on whether I forget :); if you > need it done more frequently then you can just build your own as > already noted. > 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. 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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