Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 11:42:01 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: portupgrade Message-ID: <3DE52009.9020705@owt.com> References: <20021127164759.GA6903@pooh.nagual.st>
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Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > I've read somewhere that after a cvsup of my /usr/ports is is wise to > run "portsdb -Uu", maybe even followed by a "pkgdb -F" > > Is this really true? Especially portsdb takes quit some time to run, so > if it's ok not to run.. ;-)) > There isn't any reason to run pkgdb -F but Kris updates the INDEX file at an infrequent rate. If he updated it everytime a port changed, some computer would spend all of its time generating INDEX. Your port system support software needs an INDEX with a current set of dependancies. You also need INDEX.db if you use portupgrade. I haven't run portsdb -U recently; however, in the near past, it produced incomplete dependancies and I have my scripts that I use to cvsup ports-akk setup to also cd /usr/ports make index portsdb -u I do this everytime I cvsup. On my fast machine, the make index takes 11 minutes, which is slower than a portsdb -U. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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