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Date:      Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:59:08 -0300
From:      Sergio de Almeida Lenzi <lenzi.sergio@gmail.com>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: UPDATING 20110730
Message-ID:  <1312217948.22733.26.camel@z6000.lenzicasa>
In-Reply-To: <4E367999.8000906@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20110801085135.GA45113@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <4E367999.8000906@FreeBSD.org>

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Hello

Even I use portmaster (a very good piece of software),
it becomes very slow when you have 1550 ports installed in your
system.

As only a few ports (about 100, in my case)  changes in a week time,
I build a database (postgres) that contains all the ports installed,
de depencies and a flag that tells me if that port needs updating
(pkg_version)
a shell script scans the ports (pkg_info | cut -d ' ' -f 1) and builds
the database once a week (can take several hours... 

Once the database is built,  an sql query (only ms...) tells me what to
do...
it then executes pkg_delete, cd /usr/ports/..., make clean all package..
and after doing all the job, it updates the postgresql database
(seconds... ).

In my case I use a central server with all the 1550 ports... and all I
do
is to install them on the slaves, (again, using the postgres database
data)...

Hope this can give someone some ideas....

Sergio



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