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From: parv <parv_fm@emailgroups.net>
To: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st>
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Subject: Re: portupgrade
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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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