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On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 09:32:52 +0100, Matthew Seaman
<m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
> Sounds like portupgrade is building an INDEX file.  You'll see a
> message about running 'portsdb -Uu' if it is.  What you've seen is
> pretty much the expected impact I'd expect from doing that.
> 
> You should be able to download a recently build INDEX file by running
> 
>    # make fetchindex
> 
> before starting your portupgrade -- it's about 6Mb.  After doing that
> portupgrade will only need to run 'portsdb -u' which is a lot lighter
> weight.
> 
> Although if your system can build the INDEX file in 5 minutes, you
> might as well let it do that.  Takes more like 20 minutes on my
> machine.
> 
>        Cheers,
> 
>        Matthew
I recommend highly sysutils/portindex, which does incremental builds
and takes very little time to build new INDEX, INDEX-5.

Jiawei Ye