Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 15:09:25 -0500 From: parv <parv_fm@emailgroups.net> To: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: portupgrade Message-ID: <20021127200925.GC21971@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <20021127164759.GA6903@pooh.nagual.st> References: <20021127164759.GA6903@pooh.nagual.st>
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in message <20021127164759.GA6903@pooh.nagual.st>, wrote Dick Hoogendijk thusly... > > 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.. ;-)) what takes time is to build INDEX (portupgrade -U) due to large number of ports; reduce the ports, reduce the time to run "portsdb -U". both "portsdb -u" & "pkgdb- F" are quite fast. i will leave it up to you the decision not to create new indexes after every ports tree update. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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