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From: "Anthony M. Agelastos" <iqgrande@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 09:04:50 -0400
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Hello all,

Is it normal for portsdb -uU to require 2 hours to complete (Pentium  
III // 450 MHz // FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE from 07/27 and KERNEL = GENERIC  
with very, very slight modifications primarily for architecture and  
Mplayer)? I found out about this because many have recommended using  
portversion because of its speed over pkg_version, however when I  
sync my Ports tree, pkg_version will report to me updated information  
whereas portversion will not, and the only way I have found to have  
it report updated information is to run portsdb -uU (the big U is  
what takes forever and is the crucial one of those flags), which  
takes two hours and, consequently, kills the overall speed claim  
mentioned above. Considering what I can build (from source) or  
scientifically compute in two hours, I think my machine is doing  
something it shouldn't be. Does anyone have any ideas?

I should note here that I did Google this, check the FAQ, and check  
the documentation. I have been known to accidentally miss items in  
these areas, so if I did, I do apologize.