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Date:      Sat, 29 May 2021 17:23:15 -0400
From:      LuMiWa <lumiwa@dismail.de>
To:        Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
Cc:        Lena@lena.kiev.ua, Mailinglists FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Updating /usr/ports
Message-ID:  <20210529172315.26fd58f0@dismail.de>
In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1v7YCXseGBQLbWLimbTZJLvzSPJak9LTu1rWLbPoNk83g@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20210528144112.GA961@lena.kiev> <CAN6yY1v7YCXseGBQLbWLimbTZJLvzSPJak9LTu1rWLbPoNk83g@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sat, 29 May 2021 09:41:11 -0700
Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 8:01 AM <Lena@lena.kiev.ua> wrote:
>=20
> > > If you are trying to replace portsnap, I think the answer is
> > > net/gitup. This only requires a single command,  "gitup ports",
> > > and you get your
> > index
> > > updated along with updating all ports.
> >
> > No, `gitup ports` doesn't update index. It deletes INDEX-12 .
> >
> Does "pkg version" use some other way of doing things than INDEX?  I
> checked a system that I recently upgraded to 13.0 and it lacks
> INDEX-13 (or any INDEX-), but "pkg version -vL=3D" works fine. It is
> slower, though. It was almost instantaneous and now takes about 45
> seconds. Not sure whether this is dependent on the number of
> installed ports. That system has only about 325 ports installed. My
> development system has around a thousand, but I use git  and
> fetchindex there, so I can't easily compare. --
> Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer
> E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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/var/db/gitup/ports is updated every time as you use gitup ports. I
think it is an index. because when you run in /usr/ports make index are
those in /var/db/gitup updated.

--=20

=E2=80=9CThinking is difficult, that=E2=80=99s why most people judge.=E2=80=
=9D

Carl Jung



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