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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

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