From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 26 15:58:21 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AC98106566C for ; Sun, 26 Dec 2010 15:58:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from christopher-ml@telting.org) Received: from mail.telting.org (mail.telting.org [204.109.56.249]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDAB48FC08 for ; Sun, 26 Dec 2010 15:58:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from apollo.local (cpe-76-168-204-255.socal.res.rr.com [76.168.204.255]) by mail.telting.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93AFF2A867 for ; Sun, 26 Dec 2010 15:42:18 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4D176249.1000609@telting.org> Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 07:42:01 -0800 From: Chris Telting User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100629 Thunderbird/3.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: pkg_info and an active /usr/ports is slow X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 15:58:21 -0000 Just wondering about the interaction of pkg_info (no args) and having a ports directory. Without it it's blazing fast, with it it is just slow and sometimes just breaks during the listing. There is nothing in the man page about it reading the ports directory or why it would want or need to. Most importantly there is no command line option to skip it. Thanks Chris